29 April 2009 | 10% human…
…90% bacteria. I love this stuff. We truly are the sum of our (1,000,000,000,000 + 10,000,000,000,000) parts.
“[They] were incredibly small, nay so small, in my sight, that I judged that even if 100 of these very wee animals lay stretched out one against another, they could not reach to the length of a grain of coarse Sand.”
— Antonie van Leeuwenhoek describing his discovery of bacteria
See illustrations and reproductions of van Leeuwenhoek’s microscope here.
