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Antonie van Leeuwenhoek Quote - 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.

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.

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

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I saw this vast number of animalcules not all through the semen, but only in the liquid matter adhering to the thicker part.
ANTONIE VAN LEEUWENHOEK

Adhere Animalcule Liquid Matter Number Part Saw Semen Thicker Through Vast
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 Done Good Joy Make Microscopic More Much Observation Spent Time Trouble
Among other things, I saw in the body of one of these animalcules a bright and round corpuscle, placed near the head, and in which a very wonderful swift motion was to be seen, consisting of an alternate extension and contraction.
ANTONIE VAN LEEUWENHOEK

Alternative Among Anmalcule ContrAction Head Moorningm Consist Place Swift Thing
Examining this water…I found floating therein divers earthy particles, and some green streaks, spirally wound serpent-wise.
ANTONIE VAN LEEUWENHOEK

Diver Earth Examine Float Found Green Particle Serpent Some Streak Water Wise Wound
I have divers times endeavoured to see and to know, what parts the Blood consists of; and at length I have observ’d, taking some Blood out of my own hand, that it consists of small round globuls driven through a Crystalline humidity or water.
ANTONIE VAN LEEUWENHOEK

Blood Drive Humidity See Talk Time Water
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:
ANTONIE VAN LEEUWENHOEK

Bee Cheese Creature Horse Make Mite One Proportion Small Water
My determination is not to remain stubbornly with my ideas, but I’ll leave them and go over to others as soon as I am shown plausible reasons which I can grasp.
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Determination Ideas Leaving Myself Reason Stubborn
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
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
I have divers times endeavoured to see and to know, what parts the Blood consists of; and at length I have observ’d, taking some Blood out of my own hand, that it consists of small round globuls driven through a Crystalline humidity or water.
ANTONIE VAN LEEUWENHOEK

Blood Consist Crystalline Diver Driven Endeavor Globulus Hand Humidity Know Length Round Small Taking Through Timer Water
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
In it, that sometimes more than a thousand were moving about in an amount of material the size of a grain of sand…
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Amount Grain Material More Move Sand Size Sometimes Thousand
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 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.
ANTONIE VAN LEEUWENHOEK

Animalclue Belief Body Certain Internal Land Motion Observe Quick Seen Size Transfer
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?
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