Body Quote by Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
“If any person examines by the microscope that part towards the extremity of the spider's body from whence its thread proceeds, he will observe the spot to be, as it were, surrounded by five several protuberances or risings, each ending in a point and altogether forming a kind of enclosure.”
![“I've spent more time than many will believe [making microscopic observations], but I've done them with joy, and I've taken no notice those who have said why take so much trouble and what good is it?” quote by Antonie van Leeuwenhoek](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/5b8/antonie-van-leeuwenhoek-17943_believe_i-ve-spent-more-time-than-many-will-beli_560375.jpg)
![“The 4th sort of creatures... which moved through the 3 former sorts, were incredibly small, and so small in my eye that I judged, that if 100 of them lay [stretched out] one by another, they would not equal the length of a grain of course Sand; and according to this estimate, ten hundred thousand…” quote by Antonie van Leeuwenhoek](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/9f1/antonie-van-leeuwenhoek-17943_bacteria_the-4th-sort-of-creatures-which-moved-th_627470.jpg)
![“I've used the Phoenix Centrifuge to replicate what the body's going to go through on the flight up. I've also done some gravity tests with ZERO-G [a charter-flight service in Arlington, Va., that uses modified Boeing 727s to simulate weightlessness], which went great.” quote by Richard Branson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/aa1/richard-branson-256_adventure_i-ve-used-the-phoenix-centrifuge-to-repl_903.jpg)
