Antonie van Leeuwenhoek Quotes

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We cannot in any better manner glorify the Lord and Creator of the universe than that in all things, how small soever they appear to our naked eyes, but which have yet received the gift of life and power of increase, we contemplate the display of his omnificence and perfections with the utmost admiration.

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
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 [sic] driven through a Crystalline humidity or water.

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
My counting is always as uncertain as that of folks who, when they see a big flock of sheep being driven, say, by merely casting their eye upon them, how many sheep there be in the whole flock.

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
In the past summer I have made many observations upon various waters, and in almost all discovered an abundance of very little and odd animalcules, whereof some were incredibly small, less even than the animalcules which others have discovered in water, and which have been called by the name of Water-flea or Water-louse.

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Reality is one thing, the appearance quite another thing; but why are not both of them truthful?

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
When these animalcula or living Atoms did move, they put forth two little horns, continually moving themselves.

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
As I aim at nothing but Truth, and so far as in me lieth, to point out Mistakes that may have crept into certain Matters; I hope that in so doing those I chance to censure will not take it ill: and if they would expose any Errors in my own Discoveries, I'd esteem it an Encouragement toward the Attaining of a nicer Accuracy.

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
I am persuaded that thirty million of these animalcules together wouldn't take up as much room, or be as big, as a coarse grain of sand.

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Here Gentlemen, you have the notes I have kept about my observations on duckweed and little animalcules: in making which I said to myself, How many creatures are still unknown to us, and how little do we yet understand!

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek