Christopher Columbus Quotes

I love books about treks and journeys into the unknown.

Captain Cook discovered Australia looking for the Terra Incognita. Christopher Columbus thought he was finding India but discovered America. History is full of events that happened because of an imaginary tale.

What drives me is exploration with a purpose, more the classic Royal Geographical Society genre.

Some persons were to be sent in search of the river Missouri in order to discover whether it had any communication with the Pacific Ocean …

I've always been interested in exploration and the history of exploring the world, but it seems like we've found everything now.

Mapping, both literal and metaphorical, has always been about our quest for knowing.

There's no map for you to follow and take your journey. You are Lewis and Clark. You are the mapmaker.

I hope that we continue with exploration.

Now, Voyager, sail thou forth, to seek and find."

I like to run in a new place to help me find my way around.

Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.

Science is about unravelling nature.

After the departure of the land parties, I embarked with six men on thursday, the 21st april, on board my newly made boat and began the descent of the river.

The word 'circumnavigate' is quite a beautiful word.

There are no enemies in science, professor. Only phenomena to study.

We have much to learn by studying nature and taking the time to tease out its secrets.

It is but just and reasonable, that since you expose yourself to such danger to serve us, you should be rewarded for it. And we being willing to honor and favor you for the reasons aforesaid; Our will is, That you, Christopher Columbus, after discovering and conquering the said Islands and Continent in the said ocean, or any of them, shall be our Admiral of the said Islands and Continent you shall so discover and conquer; and that you be our Admiral, Vice-Roy, and Governor in them.

If Columbus had an advisory committee, he would probably still be at the dock.

The Indians on board said that thence to Cuba was a voyage in their canoes of a day and a half; these being small dug-outs without a sail. Such are their canoes. I departed thence for Cuba, for by the signs the Indians made of its greatness, and of its gold and pearls, I thought that it must be Cipango.

You can theorize as much as you want about what you think you're seeing, but until you get out there and dig, you can't tell exactly what it is.

Writing is like travelling. It's wonderful to go somewhere, but you get tired of staying.

'Research,' for me, is a big word that encompasses a lot of different activities, all of them based around curiosity. Research is traveling to places, or studying snowflakes with a magnifying glass, or excavating one's memories. Research is walking around Hamburg with a notebook.

We humans were built for exploration, and we were built to do it together.

I believe in exploration, and I will miss being on the front lines of that endeavor. On one hand, I look forward to going home, but it's something that's been a big part of my life, and I'm going to miss it.

Books of exploration have always fascinated me, like somebody going up the Amazon for the first time.