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Antonie van Leeuwenhoek Quote - For my part, I would say that the male sperm and seeds of plants have been penetrated so far that there is nothing further to discover in this great secret, but I could err in my opinion.

For my part, I would say that the male sperm and seeds of plants have been penetrated so far that there is nothing further to discover in this great secret, but I could err in my opinion.

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

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Man has always to be busy with his thoughts if anything is to be accomplished.
ANTONIE VAN LEEUWENHOEK

Accomplishment Busy Himself Man Thinking
For, the circumference of one of these little Animals in water, is not so big as the thickness of a hair in a Cheese-mite.
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Big Cheese Circumstance Mite One Thickness Water
The 4th sort of creatures… which moved through the 3 former sorts, were incredibly small, and so small in my eye that I judged, that if 100 of them lay [stretched out] one by another, they would not equal the length of a grain of course Sand; and according to this estimate.
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For my part, I would say that the male sperm and seeds of plants have been penetrated so far that there is nothing further to discover in this great secret, but I could err in my opinion.
ANTONIE VAN LEEUWENHOEK

Biology Discover Errors Greatness Myself Opinion Plant Science Secret
I make the proportion of one of these small Water-creatures to a Cheese-mite, to be like that of a Bee to a Horse:
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Bee Cheese Creature Horse Make Mite One Proportion Small Water
I observed certain animalcules, within whole bodies I saw so quick a motion as to exceed belief; they were about the size of a large grain of sand, and their bodies being transparent, that the internal motion could plainly be seen.
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For my part, I hold it equally impossible for a small shellfish to be produced without generation as for a whale to have its origin from the mud.
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Equality Hold Myself Origin Production Small
And I imagine, that [ten hundred thousand] of these little Creatures do not equal an ordinary grain of Sand in bigness: And comparing them with a Cheese-mite (which may be seen to move with the naked eye)
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Biggest Cheese Eye Grain Hundred Imagine Move Naked Ordinary Sand Thousand
In rain water, I observed a small red worm and two other kinds of very minute insects; of those of the larger size, I judged that 30,000 together would not equal a coarse sand.
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Equality Judgement Kind Myself Rain Togetherness Water Worm
In the year 1657 I discovered very small living creatures in rain water.
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Creature Discover Live Rain Small Water Year
Just as the supposed number may differ from the true number by fully 100, 150, or even 200 in a flock of 600 sheep, so may I be even more out of my reckoning in the case of these very little animalcules.
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Animal Difference Myself Number True
Man comes not from an egg but from an animalcule that is found in male sperm.
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Animal Biology Born Man Science
This particle I concluded to be the heart.
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I’ve spent more time than many will believe [making microscopic observations], but I’ve done them with joy, and I’ve taken no notice those who have said why take so much trouble and what good is it?
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I’ve never taught one, because if I taught one, I’d have to teach others. I would give myself over to a slavery, whereas I want to stay a free man.
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Freedom Man Myself Slave Stay Teaching
The 31th of May, I perceived in the same water more of those Animals, as also some that were somewhat bigger.
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Also Animal Bigger May More Perceive Same Somewhat Water

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