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Quote by John Fiske
We shall be inclined to pronounce the voyage that led to the way t

We shall be inclined to pronounce the voyage that led to the way to this New World as the most epoch-making event of all that have occurred since the birth of Christ. – John Fiske

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We now witness the constructive work on a foundation that will endure through the ages. That foundation is the god of science – revealed to us in terms that will harmonize with our intelligence. – John Fiske

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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. – Marcel Proust

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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. – Edmund Arthur Helps

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With this humble instrumentality did it please Providence to prepare the theatre for those events by which a new dispensation of liberty was to be communicated to man. – Edward Everett

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Many great ideas have been lost because the people who had them could not stand being laughed at. – Author Unknown

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