Explorers
Christopher Columbus Quotes
Riches don't make a man rich, they only make him busier.”
“These people are very unskilled in arms ... with 50 men they could all be subjected and made to do all that one wished.”
When there are such lands there should be profitable things without number
I should not proceed by land to the East, as is customary, but by a Westerly route, in which direction we have hitherto no certain evidence that any one has gone
I have always read that the world, both land and water, was spherical, as the authority and researches of Ptolemy and all the others who have written on this subject demonstrate and prove, as do the eclipses of the moon and other experiments that are made from east to west, and the elevation of the North Star from north to south
