I also hate those holidays that fall on a Monday
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I also hate those holidays that fall on a Monday where you don't get mail, those fake holidays like Columbus Day. What did Christopher Columbus do, discover America? If he hadn't, somebody else would have and we'd still be here. Big deal.
The greatest discoveries of science have always b
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The greatest discoveries of science have always been those that forced us to rethink our beliefs about the universe and our place in it.
Every great advance in science has issued from a
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Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
Whose indomitable spirit changed the face of the
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Whose indomitable spirit changed the face of the earth for us.
Columbus found a world, and had no chart,
Sav
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Columbus found a world, and had no chart,
Save one that faith deciphered in the skies.
He completed the universe, he achieved the physic
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He completed the universe, he achieved the physical unity of the globe.
Columbus had all the spirit of a crusader, and, a
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Columbus had all the spirit of a crusader, and, at the same time, the investigating nature of a modern man of science.
Hardly a name in profane history is more august t
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Hardly a name in profane history is more august than his. Hardly another character in the world's record has made so little of its opportunities. His discovery was a blunder; his blunder was a new world; the New World is his monument!
A ship in harbor is safe - but that is not what s
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A ship in harbor is safe - but that is not what ships are for.
If Columbus had an advisory committee he would pr
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If Columbus had an advisory committee he would probably still be at the dock.
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discov
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Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered
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What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achi
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Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
America's one of the finest countries anyone ever
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America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
Aborigines, n.: Persons of little worth fou
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Aborigines, n.: Persons of little worth found cumbering the soil of a newly discovered country. They soon cease to cumber; they fertilize.
Was this his face, and these the finding eyes
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Was this his face, and these the finding eyes
That plucked a new world from the rolling seas?
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seek
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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
He stands out among the beacon lights of history
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He stands out among the beacon lights of history as a man of vision dominated by a definite purpose.
He leaves in the background of fame all other nav
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He leaves in the background of fame all other navigators whose names are written in the priceless annals of discovery.
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