…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.

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