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Antonie van Leeuwenhoek Quote - 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.

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

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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
How little do we discover in comparison of those things which now are and forever will be hidden from our sight? The whole of which I am fully persuaded no one will ever be able to dive into, and to explain their causes and effects.
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Comparison Discover Explanation Forever Hide Myself Ourselves Sight
Man has always to be busy with his thoughts if anything is to be accomplished.
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Accomplishment Busy Himself Man Thinking
There was discover’d by me a fifth sort, which had near the thickness of the former, but they were almost twice as long. The first time bacteria were observed.
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Bacteria Discover Fifth First Former Long Observe Sort Thickness Time Twice
The whole circumference of each of these streaks was about the thickness of a hair of one’s head. … all consisted of very small green globules joined together: and there were very many small green globules as well. [The earliest recorded observation of the common green alga Spyrogyra.]
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Circumstance Consist Each Other Examining Globule Green Small Well Whole
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
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
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
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 therewithal, whenever I found out anything remarkable, I have thought it my duty to put down my discovery on paper, so that all ingenious people might be informed thereof.
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Anything Discovery Down Inform might People Put Remarkable
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.
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Biology Discover Errors Greatness Myself Opinion Plant Science Secret
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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Believe Goodness Myself Observation Time Trouble
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
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
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
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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Animalclue Belief Body Certain Internal Land Motion Observe Quick Seen Size Transfer

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