Checks Quote by Neil deGrasse Tyson

The history of exploration has never been driven by exploration. But Columbus himself was a discoverer. So was Magellan. But the people who wrote…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“what motivated explorers? What inspired Magellan, battered by South America’s strange williwaw winds, to hold to his course through an unknown strait with no…

— Jacques-Yves Cousteau

Why wasn't Christopher Columbus able to discover Spain?

— Pablo Neruda

“The thing about Magellan is the thing about all these explorers. Most of the time, they’re just determined to chase impossible things. And most…

— Morgan Matson

I feel a lot like Magellan. You know - the great explorer during the Age of Exploration.

— Madison Cawthorn

Christopher Columbus was looking for a passage to India, but he landed in America. He landed in the wrong place, and when he got…

— Ronald Reagan

Columbus real achievement was managing to cross the ocean successfully in both directions. Though an accomplished enough mariner, he was not terribly good at…

— Bill Bryson

“Columbus's real achievement was managing to cross the ocean successfully in both directions. Though an accomplished enough mariner, he was not terribly good at…

— Bill Bryson

Yeah, I know he discovered the West Indies; it wasn't America. But the whole thing with Columbus was that people had been telling him,…

— Bill Cowher

Columbus went around the world in 1492. That isn't a lot of strokes when you consider the course.

— Lee Trevino

In 1492 Columbus knew less about the far Atlantic than we do about the heavens, yet he chose not to sail with a flotilla…

— Wernher von Braun

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

— Louise Erdrich