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Antonie van Leeuwenhoek Quote - In the year 1657 I discovered very small living creatures in rain water.

In the year 1657 I discovered very small living creatures in rain water.

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

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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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Circumstance Consist Each Other Examining Globule Green Small Well Whole
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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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.
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Freedom Man Myself Slave Stay Teaching
Man has always to be busy with his thoughts if anything is to be accomplished.
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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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In the year 1657 I discovered very small living creatures in rain water.
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How inscrutable and incomprehensible are the hidden works of Nature!
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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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In the year 1657 I discovered very small living creatures in rain water.
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Man comes not from an egg but from an animalcule that is found in male sperm.
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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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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.
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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.
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Equality Hold Myself Origin Production Small
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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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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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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