Columbus Quote by Benjamin Disraeli

The significance of Columbus's discovery was that on a round earth, humanity is more interconnected than on a flat one. On a round earth,…

— Matt Taibbi

A great discovery is a fact whose appearance in science gives rise to shining ideas, whose light dispels many obscurities and shows us new…

— Claude Bernard

The great discoveries are usually obvious.

— Phil Crosby

You remind me of Christopher Columbus in that you're always discovering things people knew about years ago.

— Anonymous

America has had many other discoverers besides Columbus, but he seems to have made more satisfactory arrangements with the historians than any of the…

— Bill Nye

It is easy to discover what another has discovered before.

— Christopher Columbus

The greatest discoveries are those that shed light unto ourselves.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The greatest discoveries have come from people who have looked at a standard situation and seen it differently.

— Ira Erwin

The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.

— Arthur Koestler

The discovery which has been pointed to by theory is always one of profound interest and importance, but it is usually the close and…

— Oliver Lodge

When we first broke into that forbidden box in the other dimension, we knew we had discovered something as surprising and powerful as the…

— Ken Kesey

Columbus had all the spirit of a crusader, and, at the same time, the investigating nature of a modern man of science.

— Edmund Arthur Helps