For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible,...
Colossians 1:16
"From all these observations, we discern most plainly the
incomprehensible perfection, the exact order, and the inscrutable
providential care with which the most wise Creator and Lord of the
Universe had formed the bodies of these animalcules, which are so minute
as to escape our sight, to the end that different species of them may
be preserved in existence." Antony van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723), father of microbiology
