Age of Discovery Quotes

A totally new era in the history of mankind.

Since the discovery of Columbus, there has been no event of equal importance to the human race.

Leonardo da Vinci was lucky to be born the same year that Johannes Gutenberg opened his printing shop. As a young person, he could get information about whatever struck his curiosity. The Internet is to our age what Gutenberg's press was to his, so he would have loved being alive today.

We have entered, almost without noticing, an age of exploration and discovery unparalleled since the Renaissance.

One might almost say that the history of geographical discovery, properly so called, begins with Captain Cook, the motive of whose voyages was purely scientific curiosity.

I was four years old then, and I think it must have been the next summer that I first heard the voices.

That was really cool. I got to kiss a little boy. I was 7 and he was 10, and his name is Thomas Curtis. He was the first boy I've ever kissed in my entire life and he was three years older than me.

Most of the southern hemisphere is unexplored. We had more exploration ships down there during Captain Cook's time than now. It's amazing.

Exploration belongs to the Renaissance, travel to the bourgeois age, tourism to our proletarian moment.

I was introduced to the game by my father, Tommy, when I was 11.

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

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

There are mysteries which men can only guess at, which age by age they may solve only in part.

You British plundered half the world for your own profit. Let's not pass it off as the Age of Enlightenment.

Decisive inventions and discoveries always are initiated by an intellectual or moral stimulus as their actual motivating force, but, usually, the final impetus to human action is given by material impulses ... merchants stood as a driving force behind the heroes of the age of discovery; this first heroic impulse to conquer the world emanated from very mortal forces

So, you know, I think the age of exploration is just beginning, not ending, on our planet.

I did not discover literature of any kind until I was about eleven, or ten.

Why wasn't Christopher Columbus able to discover Spain?

I did projects on Champlain coming up the St. Lawrence River and on Henry Hudson cast adrift in the bay that now bears his name. And I read dozens of historical novels: Rosemary Sutcliff on Roman Britain and G. A. Henty on British heroes, though my all-time favourite was Ronald Welch's 'Knight Crusader.'

And so by the fifteenth century, on October 8, the Europeans were looking for a new place to try to get to, and they came up with a new concept: the West.

Many discoveries are reserved for ages still to come . . . . Our universe is a sorry little affair unless it has in it something for every age to investigate.

It makes it very exciting don't you think to live in an age of, of discovery of human personality this way?

While confronting the problems of the present, I often find myself thinking back to the world of books as it was experienced by the Founding Fathers and the philosophers of the Enlightenment.

The time will come when diligent research over periods will bring to light things which now lie hidden...Many discoveries are reserved for ages still to come, when memories of us will have been effaced. Our universe is a sorry little affair unless it has something for every age to investigate. nature does not reveal her mysteries once and for all.

Columbus did not seek a new route to the Indies in response to a majority directive.