You squeeze the eyedropper, and a drop of pond water drips o... - Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
"You squeeze the eyedropper, and a drop of pond water drips out onto the microscope stage. You look at the projected image. The drop is full of life - strange beings swimming, crawling, tumbling; high dramas of pursuit and escape, triumph and tragedy. This is a world populated by beings far more exotic than in any science fiction movie..."