Antonie van Leeuwenhoek Quotes

The next time you see a spider web, please, pause and look a little closer. You'll be seeing one of the most high-performance materials known to man.

Some people collect butterflies - I love beetles.

I remember being fascinated by ants and wasps and other bugs when I was a kid. I'd set out a Coke can and stand back 20 feet and use my telescope to watch wasps land on it.

To borrow from the writings of a spider named Charlotte: 'Silk is terrific!'

You don't work with spiders very long before you start noticing how important silk is to their life and just how special that is for spiders.

I always like jumping spiders. They're just so darn cute.

Most spiders eat and remake their webs every night.

Of all bugs, growing up I just loved the pill bugs. They roll up, you play with them, you wait for them to open up, and then when you touch them they roll up again. I just love that.

My kid really loves bugs.

Spiders are always big in the autumn: they've had all summer to grow.

Look at spiders. They use about eight different properties of silk for different functions. The spider is like a multimaterial 3D printer.

Did you ever look through a microscope at a drop of pond water? You see plenty of love there. All the amoebae getting married. I presume they think it very exciting and important. We don't.

The spider is an animal who eats mosquitoes. That's why I love the spider - it is the only way we have to deal with these insects.

Nothing, I believe, is so full of life under the microscope as a drop of water from a stagnant pool.

Remember what I said about the mosquitoes?" "Which part" asked Maggie. "The scary part, the really scary part, the legitimately terrifying part, or the part that makes suicide sound like an awesome way to spend the evening?

Compared to the bugs and the spiders and flies, I am an apeman.

Art is long, and critics are the insects of a day.

Bees do have a smell, you know, and if they don't they should, for their feet are dusted with spices from a million flowers.

I wouldn't hurt a flea. I'd finger a spider though.

I hated the words. Each one was like a big live insect in my mouth.

Like delicate lace, so the threads intertwine, oh, gossamer web of wond'rous design! Such beauty and grace wild nature produces... Ughh, look at that spider suck out that bug's juices!

Glow-worms on the ground are moving, As if in the torch-dance circling.

It is only in the microscope that our life looks so big. It is an indivisible point, drawn out and magnified by the powerful lenses of Time and Space.