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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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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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Animal Biology Born Man Science
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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Believe Done Good Joy Make Microscopic More Much Observation Spent Time Trouble
Ten hundred thousand of them could not equal the dimensions of a grain of such course Sand.
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Course Dimension Equal Grainm Such Hundred Thousand Sand Ten
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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Discover Information People Remark Responsibility Thinking
And therewithal, whenever I found out anything remarkable, I have thought it my duty to put down my discovery on paper, so that all ingenious people might be informed thereof.
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Anything Discovery Down Inform might People Put Remarkable
How inscrutable and incomprehensible are the hidden works of Nature!
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Earth Hide Nature Work
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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Biggest Cheese Eye Grain Hundred Imagine Move Naked Ordinary Sand Thousand
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
Man has always to be busy with his thoughts if anything is to be accomplished.
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Accomplish Always Anything Busy Men
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
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
My determination is not to remain stubbornly with my ideas, but I’ll leave them and go over to others as soon as I am shown plausible reasons which I can grasp.
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Determination Ideas Leaving Myself Reason Stubborn
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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Blood Consist Crystalline Diver Driven Endeavor Globulus Hand Humidity Know Length Round Small Taking Through Timer Water
Man has always to be busy with his thoughts if anything is to be accomplished.
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Accomplishment Busy Himself Man Thinking
The 4th sort of creatures… which moved through the 3 former sorts, were incredibly small, and so small in my eye that I judged, that if 100 of them lay [stretched out] one by another, they would not equal the length of a grain of course Sand; and according to this estimate.
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Creature Equal Eye Grain Hope Incredibly Judge Length Move Sand Small Sort Through

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