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Antonie van Leeuwenhoek Quote - In the year 1657 I discovered very small living creatures in rain water.

In the year 1657 I discovered very small living creatures in rain water.

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

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Man comes not from an egg but from an animalcule that is found in male sperm.
ANTONIE VAN LEEUWENHOEK

Animal Biology Born Man Science
The 31th of May, I perceived in the same water more of those Animals, as also some that were somewhat bigger.
ANTONIE VAN LEEUWENHOEK

Also Animal Bigger May More Perceive Same Somewhat Water
I saw this vast number of animalcules not all through the semen, but only in the liquid matter adhering to the thicker part.
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Adhere Animalcule Liquid Matter Number Part Saw Semen Thicker Through Vast
Whenever I found something remarkable, I have thought it my duty to put down my discovery on paper, so that all ingenious people be informed thereof.
ANTONIE VAN LEEUWENHOEK

Discovery Down Duty Found Inform People Remarkable Something
[M]y work, which I’ve done for a long time, was not pursued in order to gain the praise I now enjoy, but chiefly from a craving after knowledge, which I notice resides in me more than in most other men.
ANTONIE VAN LEEUWENHOEK

Chiefly Crave Done Knowledge Men More Praise Pursue Time Work
How inscrutable and incomprehensible are the hidden works of Nature!
ANTONIE VAN LEEUWENHOEK

Earth Hide Nature Work
Examining this water…I found floating therein divers earthy particles, and some green streaks, spirally wound serpent-wise.
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Diver Earth Examine Float Found Green Particle Serpent Some Streak Water Wise Wound
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)
ANTONIE VAN LEEUWENHOEK

Biggest Cheese Eye Grain Hundred Imagine Move Naked Ordinary Sand Thousand
Man has always to be busy with his thoughts if anything is to be accomplished.
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Accomplish Always Anything Busy Men
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?
ANTONIE VAN LEEUWENHOEK

Believe Goodness Myself Observation Time Trouble
I have oft-times been besought, by divers gentlemen, to set down on paper what I have beheld through my newly invented microscopia, but I have generally declined.
ANTONIE VAN LEEUWENHOEK

Decline Invention Myself Paper Time
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?
ANTONIE VAN LEEUWENHOEK

Believe Done Good Joy Make Microscopic More Much Observation Spent Time Trouble
In the year 1657 I discovered very small living creatures in rain water.
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Creature Discover Live Rain Small Water Year
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.
ANTONIE VAN LEEUWENHOEK

Equality Hold Myself Origin Production Small
Ten hundred thousand of them could not equal the dimensions of a grain of such course Sand.
ANTONIE VAN LEEUWENHOEK

Course Dimension Equal Grainm Such Hundred Thousand Sand Ten
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

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