“You are literally filled with the fruit of your own devices, with rats and mice and such small deer, paramecia, and entomostraceæ, and kicking things with horrid names, which you see in microscopes at the Polytechnic, and rush home and call for brandy-without the water-stone, and gravel, and dyspepsia, and fragments of your own muscular tissue tinged with your own bile.” HomeScienceNamesWaterStonesFilledFruitDevicesMiceRatsFragmentsKickingDeerTissuesMicroscopesBrandyGravel Author:Charles Kingsley
“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.” ThinkingLooksImportantWaterMarriedExcitingPlentyPondsGetting MarriedMicroscopes Author:Rose Macaulay
“Nothing, I believe, is so full of life under the microscope as a drop of water from a stagnant pool.” BelieveI BelieveWaterPoolStagnantMicroscopesDrop Of Water Book:Sleeping Murder & the Murder at the Vicarage Source: Sleeping Murder & the Murder at the Vicarage