Excerpt from David Konstan's translation of On Aristotle Physics 6.
On 241a26-b12:
"[W]hat is unable to come to be [can not] be coming to be. For it would be coming to be in vain, unless it wer eable to come to be. But neither god nor nature does anything in vain [cf. de Caelo 271a33]. Perhaps Aristotle says more exactly taht what cannot come to be is not coming to be at all. For even if those [legendary giants Otus and Ephialtes] put [Mt.] Ossa on top of [Mt.] Olympus and [Mt.] Pelion on top of [Mt.] Ossa, this was not the coming-to-be of an ascent to heaven, since it was not possible for that to come to be."
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