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Full Idea
Although it is impossible to make contact in a finite time with things that are infinite in quantity, it is possible to do so with things that are infinitely divisible, since the time itself is also infinite in this way.
Gist of Idea
We don't have time for infinite quantity, but we do for infinite divisibility, because time is also divisible
Source
comment on Zeno (Elea) (fragments/reports [c.450 BCE], A25) by Aristotle - Physics 233a21
Book Ref
'The First Philosophers', ed/tr. Waterfield,Robin [OUP 2000], p.75