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Antony Van Leeuwenhoek

Dutch microscopy pioneer and naturalist Anton van Leeuwenhoek or Leuwenhoek formulated early descriptions of bacteria and spermatozoa.

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“My determination is not to remain stubbornly with my ideas but I'll leave them and go over to others as soon as I am shown plausible reason which I can grasp. This is the more true since I have no other purpose than to place truth before my eyes so far as it is in my power to embrace it; and to use the little talent I have received to draw the world away from its old heathenish superstitions and to go over to the truth and to stick to it.”
Antony Van Leeuwenhoek
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