America Quote by Susanna Kaysen

“We say that Columbus discovered America and Newton discovered gravity, as though America and gravity weren't there until Columbus and Newton got wind of…

— Susanna Kaysen

The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

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

— Louise Erdrich

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

The true America is the Middle West, and Columbus discovered nothing at all except another Europe.

— W. L. George

What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.

— Margot Asquith

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

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

— Pedro Domingos

America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.

— Oscar Wilde

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

An apple fell and Newton discovered the law of gravity. Hundreds of bombs fell on Palestine and no one discovered the law of humanity.

— Danish

Sir Isaac Newton was asked how he discovered the law of gravity. He replied, "By thinking about it all the time.

— Anonymous