The Infinite

It is fit that he who engages in a discussion concerning nature should speculate the infinite and consider whether it is or not, and, if it is, what it is. Some indeed, as the Pythagoreans and Plato, consider it, per se, not as being an accident to anything else, but as having an essential subsistence. The science concerning nature is conversant with magnitudes, motion, and time, each of which must necessarily be either infinite or finite. In short, neither is teaching properly the same as learning, nor acting as being passive, but the motion in which these are inherent is the same.