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Antonie van Leeuwenhoek Quote - 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:

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

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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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In the year 1657 I discovered very small living creatures in rain water.
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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:
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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.
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Man comes not from an egg but from an animalcule that is found in male sperm.
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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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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.
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In the year 1657 I discovered very small living creatures in rain water.
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[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.
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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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How little do we discover in comparison of those things which now are and forever will be hidden from our sight? The whole of which I am fully persuaded no one will ever be able to dive into, and to explain their causes and effects.
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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.
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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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Examining this water…I found floating therein divers earthy particles, and some green streaks, spirally wound serpent-wise.
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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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