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Natura non facit saltus [1] [2] (Latin for "nature does not make jumps") has been an important principle of natural philosophy.It appears as an axiom in the works of Gottfried Leibniz (New Essays, IV, 16: [2] "la nature ne fait jamais des sauts", "nature never makes jumps"), one of the inventors of the infinitesimal calculus (see Law of Continuity).
natura non facit saltum ita nec lex: nature does not make a leap, thus neither does the law: Shortened form of sicut natura nil facit per saltum ita nec lex (just as nature does nothing by a leap, so neither does the law), referring to both nature and the legal system moving gradually. natura non facit saltus: nature makes no leaps
The Latin word saltus (pl. saltūs) meaning "leap," as in: Natura non facit saltus ("nature does not make jumps"), a principle of natural philosophy; hence in scientific usage: Saltation (biology) Saltation (geology) Saltatory conduction; Saltus lunae, a "leap of the moon" in Christian calendar computation; see computus
The word "nature" derives from Latin nātūra, a philosophical term derived from the verb for birth, which was used as a translation for the earlier (pre-Socratic) Greek term phusis, derived from the verb for natural growth. Already in classical times, philosophical use of these words combined two related meanings which have in common that they ...
Quod natura non dat, Salmantica non præstat» (In English What nature does not give, Salamanca does not lend) it is a Latin proverb that means that a university can not give anyone what nature denied. In this way, neither intelligence nor memory nor the capacity for learning are things that a university can offer its students.
abusus non tollit usum: misuse does not remove use: The misuse of some thing does not eliminate the possibility of its correct use. cf. ab abusu ad usum non valet consequentia: ab utili: from utility: Used of an argument abyssus abyssum invocat: deep calleth unto deep: From Psalms 42:7; some translations have "sea calls to sea". accipe hoc ...
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This page is one of a series listing English translations of notable Latin phrases, such as veni, vidi, vici and et cetera. Some of the phrases are themselves translations of Greek phrases, as ancient Greek rhetoric and literature started centuries before the beginning of Latin literature in ancient Rome. [1] This list covers the letter C.