Basements Quote by Tom Robbins

“Advice to explorers everywhere: if you would like to recieve due credit for your discoveries, keep a detailed account of your journeys as Columbus…

— Cuthbert Soup

Why wasn't Christopher Columbus able to discover Spain?

— Pablo Neruda

“Long before Christopher Columbus, the celebrated Chinese navigator Zheng He travelled through the south and westward maritime routes in the Indian Ocean and established…

— Patrick Mendis

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

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

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

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

— Louise Erdrich

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

“From the Introduction to Christopher Columbus and the Age of Exploration for Kids: In 1892, with the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus’s arrival in…

— Ronald A. Reis

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

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

I've often fantasized about visiting the Bahamian beach where Columbus first stumbled ashore in 1492. Sadly, no one knows where that beach is. In…

— Seth Shostak