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Antonie van Leeuwenhoek Quote - Ten hundred thousand of them could not equal the dimensions of a grain of such course Sand.

Ten hundred thousand of them could not equal the dimensions of a grain of such course Sand.

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

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How inscrutable and incomprehensible are the hidden works of Nature!
ANTONIE VAN LEEUWENHOEK

Earth Hide Nature Work
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
In the year 1657 I discovered very small living creatures in rain water.
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Creature Discover Live Rain Small Water Year
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
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.
ANTONIE VAN LEEUWENHOEK

Biology Discover Errors Greatness Myself Opinion Plant Science Secret
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
I have often endeavoured to view the circulation of the blood in terrestrial animals, but without success, by reason that no parts of their bodies were sufficiently transparent.
ANTONIE VAN LEEUWENHOEK

Animal Blood Body Enough Success View
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

Discover Information People Remark Responsibility 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.
ANTONIE VAN LEEUWENHOEK

Bacteria Discover Fifth First Former Long Observe Sort Thickness Time Twice
I’ve never taught one, because if I taught one, I’d have to teach others. I would give myself over to a slavery, whereas I want to stay a free man.
ANTONIE VAN LEEUWENHOEK

Freedom Man Myself Slave Stay Teaching
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
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
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.
ANTONIE VAN LEEUWENHOEK

Big Cheese Circumstance Mite One Thickness Water
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
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
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

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