"Schizomycetes" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... connection with the predestinating power and possible complexity of the germ, it is instructive to reflect on the very great molecular population of even the smallest spores—giving rise to very simple forms. Thus, the spores of the unicellular Schizomycetes are estimated to dimensions as low as 1/10,000 of a millimetre in diameter (Cornil et Babes, Les Batteries, 1. 37). From Lord Kelvin's estimate of the number of molecules in water, comprised within the length of a wave-length of yellow light (The Size of Atoms, Proc. R. I., vol. x., p. 185) ...
— The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays • J. (John) Joly |
