Lawrence M. Krauss

No one intuitively understands quantum mechanics because all of our experience involves a world of classical phenomena where, for example, a baseball thrown from pitcher to catcher seems to take just one path, the one described by Newton's laws of motion. Yet at a microscopic level, the universe behaves quite differently.

American Physicist

Maria Montessori

It is fortunate, I think, that nature is not bounded by human reason and by laboratory work and experimentation, for by the laws of pure reason and by microscopic investigation, it might easily have been proved, long before this, that children could not be born.

Italian Educator

Faith Salie

I entered my egg-freezing adventure from a feeling of lack - a lack of fertility, of the right partner, of biological time. But this perceived lack actually produced abundance - of options, time, peace of mind, and microscopic chances of a child.

American Journalist

Mackenzie Davis

I just like the insides of things and finding ways into microscopic worlds. There's also an element of control, taking things apart and putting them back together. It's a very tedious task. You can be alone and create a world for yourself.

Canadian Actress

Kurt Vonnegut

It is a big temptation to me, when I create a character for a novel, to say that he is what he is because of faulty wiring, or because of microscopic amounts of chemicals which he ate or failed to eat on that particular day.

American Writer

Aaron D. O'Connell

The qubit acts as a bridge between the microscopic and the macroscopic worlds.

Amos Oz

The actual gap between Labor, Likud and the new central party is microscopic.

Israeli Writer

Liam Neeson

I think there must be some other life forms, even if they're microscopic.

Irish Actor

Arthur Baer

The ladies looked one another over with microscopic carelessness.

Willard Wigan

The microscopic world became my obsession.

English Sculptor

Use 'microscopic' in subjects like biology or materials science where actual microscopes are used.

Scientific Context

'Microscopic' suggests something is too small to see without special equipment.

Not Visible

People might use 'microscopic' to hyperbolically describe very small things in everyday life.

Figurative Use

When 'microscopic' is about detail, it means looking at something very carefully and closely.

Analysing Closely

'Microscopic' can imply an intense, almost obsessive level of focus on small details.

Implying Intensity

Do not confuse 'microscopic' with 'magnified'; something magnified is made larger, not necessarily detailed.

Common Misuse

 when a manta is first born it really is microscopic it can stand on your finger on the end of your finger it's that small and so you really don't give a bit much chance of survival and it's born into a big world you know the jungle is full of danger and even very leaf it walks on is it's you know a huge stage on which its life is playing

Filming the Kung Fu...

 and intertwine in a very interesting shape, interesting structure. And the idea is that if this is what the extra dimensions look like, then the microscopic landscape of our universe all around us would look like this on the tiniest of scales. When you swing your hand, you'd be moving around these extra dimensions over and over again,

Making sense of string...

 interacting with each other in a beautiful way, and that that can happen more efficiently at a small scale. So, just as on Earth, clunky stereo systems have shrunk to beautiful, tiny iPods, maybe intelligent life itself, in order to reduce its footprint on the environment, has turned itself microscopic.

Questions No One Knows...

 attracted amazing partners and gave me access to some of the world's most advanced imaging technologies enabling me to capture extraordinary microscopic landscapes an extreme slow-motion you may be wondering what this is but I'd

Let your eyes do the...

 And all cells come from preexisting cells. To be honest, this all sounds incredibly boring until you dig a little deeper into how the world of microscopic organisms, and this theory came to be.

The wacky history of...

 but the eggs have a special protection it's known as sam sam the letters stand for shell accessory material and it's a microscopic protective layer that all eggs have

Nature's First Line of...

 clouds of microscopic plants phytoplankton minuscule green worlds a teaspoon of ocean contains thousands of eggs and larvae like seeds waiting for

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 thanks to millions of microscopic cracks in their skin. How do elephants get their cracks? And why does it help them beat the heat?

See How Cracked Skin...

 For the microscopic lab worm, C. elegans life equates to just a few short weeks on Earth.

Why do animals have such...

 Microscopic plankton flourish and an explosion of life begins.