Discovery Of America Quotes:

And furthermore did you know that behind the discovery of America there was a Jewish financier?

- Mordecai Richler

topic: America, Discovery, Discovery Of America, Financiers

The reformation was preceded by the discovery of America, as if the Almighty graciously meant to open a sanctuary to the persecuted in future years, when home should afford neither friendship nor safety.

- Thomas Paine

source: Thomas Paine (2015). “Common Sense: and The American Crisis I”, p.26, Penguin

topic: Religious, Home, Discovery, Discovery Of America

When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white men came, an Indian said simply "Ours.

- Vine Deloria Jr.

topic: Men, White, America, Discovery Of America, Anthropologists

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Funny, Sarcastic, America, Discovery Of America

If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn't turn out well for the Native Americans.

- Stephen Hawking

topic: Native American, Discovery, Would Be, Space Aliens, Discovery Of America

Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.

- James Joyce

topic: Inspirational, America, Lasts, Discovery Of America

America’s one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.

- Bobcat Goldthwait

topic: Funny, Country, Humor, Discovery Of America

Every ship that comes to America got its chart from Columbus.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: America, Discovery, Columbus, Discovery Of America

The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.

- Joseph Conrad

topic: Discovery, America, Greed, Discovery Of America

In the world's history certain inventions and discoveries occurred, of peculiar value, on account of their great efficiency in facilitating all other inventions and discoveries. Of these were the art of writing and of printing - the discovery of America, and the introduction of Patent-laws. The date of the first ... is unknown; but it certainly was as much as fifteen hundred years before the Christian era; the second-printing-came in 1436, or nearly three thousand years after the first. The others followed more rapidly - the discovery of America in 1492, and the first patent laws in 1624.

- Abraham Lincoln

source: "Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 3" by Abraham Lincoln, New Brunswick, N.J: Rutgers University Press, 1953.

topic: Christian, Art, Writing, Discovery Of America, Patent Law

We are very lucky to be living in an age in which we are still making discoveries. It is like the discovery of America-you only discover it once. The age in which we live is the age in which we are discovering the fundamental laws of nature, and that day will never come again. It is very exciting, it is marvelous, but this excitement will have to go.

- Richard P. Feynman

topic: Nature, Science, Discovery, Discovery Of America

The "discovery" of poverty at the beginning of the 1960s was something like the "discovery" of America almost five hundred years earlier. In the case of each of these exotic terrains, plenty of people were on the site before the discoverers ever arrived.

- Barbara Ehrenreich

source: Barbara Ehrenreich (1989). “FEAR OF FALLING”, Pantheon

topic: Discovery, Years, America, Discovery Of America

The great intellectual tradition that comes down to us from the past was never interrupted or lost through such trifles as the sack of Rome, the triumph of Attila, or all the barbarian invasions of the Dark Ages. It was lost after the introduction of printing, the discovery of America, the founding of the Royal Society, and all the enlightenment of the Renaissance and the modern world. It was there, if anywhere, that there was lost or impatiently snapped the long thin delicate thread that had descended from distant antiquity; the thread of that unusual human hobby: the habit of thinking.

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

topic: Dark, Thinking, Past, Discovery Of America

I began writing in the 4th grade. As a matter of fact, I produced a play for the entire school. It was about Leif Ericson and the discovery of America.

- Christopher Darden

topic: Writing, School, Discovery, Discovery Of America

What a blessing this smoking is! Perhaps the greatest that we owe to the discovery of America.

- Arthur Helps

topic: Blessing, Discovery, America, Discovery Of America