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Quotation from Generation of Animals by Aristotle
“But Nature flies from the infinite, for the infinite is unending or imperfect, and Nature ever seeks an end”
Generation of Animals, Book I, Ch. 1 (715b), trans. Arthur Platt (1910)
Aristotle's reason why creatures produced from decay cannot themselves produce new kinds without limit.
Citation: "But Nature flies from the infinite, for the infinite is unending or imperfect, and Nature ever seeks an end" — Aristotle, Generation of Animals, Book I, Ch. 1 (715b), trans. Arthur Platt (1910). (id aristotle-generation-of-animals-q1)
