Leeuwenhoek Quotes

#1. Quiz 1. Leeuwenhoek saw microorganisms in (a) polio sufferers (b) belly button fuzz (c) malaria victims (d) dental plaque

Anonymous

#2. Over time, however, doubts about spermism arose. According to Leeuwenhoek, a million human spermatozoa could fit in a grain of sand. That meant that if each sperm held a tiny person, God was horrendously wasteful of creatures made in his own

Ruth Kassinger

#3. Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, painted here by his friend Jan Vermeer, was a self-taught instrument maker.

Bill Bryson

#4. Henpecked, the great Wyatt Earp," Cody said.
"You evidently don't know Jessie," Wyatt said. "If she's in one of her tempers she'd put a hyena to flight ...

Larry McMurtry

#5. Self-appearing subjects and objects are the power of the baseless ultimate truth.

Longchenpa

#6. 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?

Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek

#7. I think worship is a lifestyle, first of all.

Michael W. Smith

#8. 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.

Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek

#9. Pornography and obscenity ... work by specialism and fragmentation. They deal with a figure without a ground
situations in which the human factor is suppressed in favor of sensations and kicks.

Marshall McLuhan

#10. A man has always to be busy with his thoughts if anything is to be accomplished.

Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek

#11. Wouldn't it be grand if we thought that theater could have that impact on the political life of a country?

Patrick Stewart

#12. I would fain coin wisdom, - mould it, I mean, into maxims, proverbs, sentences, that can easily be retained and transmitted. Would that I could denounce and banish from the language of men - as base money - the words by which they cheat and are cheated!

Joseph Joubert

#13. 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

#14. 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.

Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek

#15. I rope steers in team roping events. There's a header and a heeler on a roping team, and I'm the heeler.

Wilford Brimley

#16. Money is neither my god nor my devil. It is a form of energy that tends to make us more of who we already are, whether it's greedy or loving.

Dan Millman

#17. The book told unpleasant truths, and anyone who doesn't feel a qualm of regret at throwing a blanket over the truth is an asshole with no conscience.

Stephen King

#18. She was so fat that her belly button makes an echo.

Rodney Dangerfield

#19. A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.

Joseph Addison

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

Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek

#21. I'm optimistic about the country; I'm optimistic about the American people.

Howard Schultz