My 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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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
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In the year of 1657 I discovered very small living creatures in rain water.
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A man has always to be busy with his thoughts if anything is to be accomplished.
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