Equator Quote by Mark Twain

Earlier maps had underestimated the distances to other continents and exaggerated the outlines of individual nations. Now global dimensions could be set, with authority,…

— Dava Sobel

The world is a sphere, there is no East or West.

— Ai Weiwei

The world is sphere, has no East or West.

— Ai Weiwei

Give her the continent and she wanted the hemisphere.

— Anthony Kiedis

Everywhere's been where it is ever since it was first put there. It's called geography.

— Terry Pratchett

“The familiar Mercator projection used in maps of the earth gives a good idea of distances and directions near the equator, but produces horrible…

— Steven Weinberg

“In our five thousand years of civilization, our history has often been the handmaid of geography. We lie exactly midway between the North Pole…

— Ian McDonald

My father probably thought the capital of the world was wherever he was at the time. It couldn't possibly be anyplace else. Where he…

— Bob Dylan

Look at a globe and what you are seeing really is a snapshot of the continents as they have been for just one-tenth of…

— Bill Bryson

That distant day had a significance I could not give it then. So we wheeled and came back south towards the city. The Temple…

— Cecil Arthur Lewis

I have come to believe that this is a mighty continent which was hitherto unknown.

— Christopher Columbus

And so by the fifteenth century, on October 8, the Europeans were looking for a new place to try to get to, and they…

— Dave Barry