![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.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/images/grey-my-work-which-ive-done-for-a-long-time-w.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/images/blue-my-work-which-ive-done-for-a-long-time-w.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/images/red-my-work-which-ive-done-for-a-long-time-w.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/images/brown-my-work-which-ive-done-for-a-long-time-w.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/images/white-my-work-which-ive-done-for-a-long-time-w.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/posterimages/my-work-which-ive-done-for-a-long-time-was-not-pur.jpg)
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
[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.
![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 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.]](https://minimalistquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/the-whole-circumference-of-each-of-these-streaks-w-683x1024.jpg)
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