-- Aristotle, Poetics (translation by James Hutton)
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organized beings, that escape the nicest inquisition of the sense; when we push our discoveries yet downward, and consider those creatures so many degrees yet smaller, and the still diminishing scale of existence, in tracing which the imagination is lost as well as the sense; we become amazed and confounded at the wonders of minuteness; nor can we distinguish in its effects this extreme of littleness from the vast itself. Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Inquiry
Into The Origin Of Our Ideas Of The Sublime And
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Florence Crystals (choline periodide crystals from semen) | |
Human Sperm Stained With Potassium Iodide and Iodine | |
Human Sperm Stained With Hematoxylin/Eosin |