Lucretius Quote

This terror then and darkness of mind must be dispelled not by the rays of the sun and glittering shafts of day, but by the aspects and the law of nature; the warp of whose design we shall begin with this first principle, nothing is ever gotten out of nothing by divine power.

In: Great Books of the Western World (Volume 12), Lucretius: on the Nature of Things, Book One, l. 146 (pp. 2-3)