Quotes Tagged With :columbus

The willingness to reexamine lifelong beliefs because of conflicting data takes enormous courage, and....

It’s like, how did Columbus discover America when the Indians were already here? What kind of shit....

In 1492, the natives discovered they were indians, discovered they lived in America, discovered they....

There were no mail-order catalogues in 1492. Marco Polo's journal was the wish book of Renaissance Europe.....

There are even more statues of Robert Burns than of any other figure in world literature. Indeed if we....

We see it [the as-yet unseen, probable new planet, Neptune] as Columbus saw America from the coast of....

ab Americo Inventore ...quasi Americi terram sive AmericamFrom Amerigo the discoverer ...as if it were....

Columbus gave Europe a New World; [Alexander von] Humboldt made it known in its physical, material, intellectual,....

If and when all the laws governing physical phenomena are finally discovered, and all the empirical constants....

Christmas, 1492….Unfortunately, on Christmas morning 1492 Columbus' ship, the Santa María, ran aground....