Accurate Quote by Dava Sobel

The world map looks smaller than ever before.

— Max Azria

The map is not the territory... The only usefulness of a map depends on similarity of structure between the empirical world and the map...

— Alfred Korzybski

The more effort we make to appreciate and perceive reality, the larger and more accurate our maps will be. But many do not want…

— M. Scott Peck

I have always read that the world, both land and water, was spherical, as the authority and researches of Ptolemy and all the others…

— Christopher Columbus

“In school, we did not study world maps, because international geography, as a subject, had been long ago phased out of state curriculums. America…

— Suzy Hansen

“A ‘world’ has dimensions. By definition they are not the sole possible ones.”

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

The world of maps is nice and flat and simple. It has areas for people and areas for monsters. What a shock it is…

— Margaret Millar

There are many, many different worlds. Just as there are different continents on earth, there are different dimensional planes.

— Frederick Lenz

The equator was wisely put where it is, because if it had been run through Europe all the kings would have tried to grab…

— Mark Twain

“There are several other sources of enjoyment in a long voyage, which are of a more reasonable nature. The map of the world ceases…

— Charles Darwin

When, therefore, I had long considered this uncertainty of traditional mathematics, it began to weary me that no more definite explanation of the movement…

— Nicolaus Copernicus

If we looked down at the world from space, we would not see any demarcations of national boundaries. We would simply see one small…

— Dalai Lama