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.
ANTONIE VAN LEEUWENHOEK
Man comes not from an egg but from an animalcule that is found in male sperm.
![Antonie van Leeuwenhoek Quote - 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)](https://minimalistquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/and-i-imagine-that-ten-hundred-thousand-of-these-l-683x1024.jpg)
![Antonie van Leeuwenhoek Quote - 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.](https://minimalistquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/the-4th-sort-of-creatures-which-moved-through-the--683x1024.jpg)
![Antonie van Leeuwenhoek Quote - [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.](https://minimalistquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/my-work-which-ive-done-for-a-long-time-was-not-pur-683x1024.jpg)
