“The whole world is made of incredibly tiny things, much too small to be visible to the naked eye. Ponds and lakes, soil and dust, even our body, teem with tiny living creatures, too small to see, yet ... complicated and ... beautiful.”
“I perceived in the water more of those Animals ... And I imagine, that ten hundred thousand of these little Creatures do not equal a grain of sand. For, the circumference of one of these little Animals in water ... is not so big as the hair in a Cheese- mite.”
Totus mundus factus est ex infinite parvis materniis quas nemo videre potest. Visibilium omnium et invisibilium.
Written by: Antoine van Leeuwenhoek, David Shapiro, Richard Dawkins