Electricity Quote by L Frank Baum

Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to…

— L. Frank Baum

“Imagination has brought mankind through the Dark Ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to…

— L. Frank Baum

“Columbus was not the first person to discover America, but the last.”

— Pedro Domingos

“In the popular folklore of American history, there is a sense in which the founders’ various achievements in natural philosophy—Franklin’s electrical experiments, Jefferson’s botany—serve…

— Steven Johnson

Curiosity can lead you to bigger and better things. Columbus found America by accident.

— Anonymous

The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

It is impossible not to feel stirred at the thought of the emotions of man at certain historic moments of adventure and discovery -…

— Alfred North Whitehead

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

Captain Cook discovered Australia looking for the Terra Incognita. Christopher Columbus thought he was finding India but discovered America. History is full of events…

— Umberto Eco

In fourteen hundred ninety-two Columbus sailed the ocean blue and discovered America. Now, some have argued Columbus actually discovered the West Indies, or that…

— Jon Stewart

“Every invention began as an imagination.”

— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

Columbus only discovered that he was in some new place. He didn't discover America.

— Louise Erdrich