Man has always to be busy with his thoughts if anything is to be accomplished.
ANTONIE VAN LEEUWENHOEKI 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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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.
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And I judge that some of these little creatures were above a thousand times smaller than the smallest ones I have ever yet seen, upon the rind of cheese, in wheaten flour, mould, and the like.
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Examining this water…I found floating therein divers earthy particles, and some green streaks, spirally wound serpent-wise.
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Ten hundred thousand of them could not equal the dimensions of a grain of such course Sand.
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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.
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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.
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How inscrutable and incomprehensible are the hidden works of Nature!
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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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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.
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Man comes not from an egg but from an animalcule that is found in male sperm.
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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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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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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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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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Man has always to be busy with his thoughts if anything is to be accomplished.
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