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“Au commencement étaient les épices”

Incipit Zweig Magellan

Book:Magellan

Source: Magellan

“City of Gold. City of Water. City of Faiths. " Quien no ha visto Sevilla, " runs a saying, " no ha visto maravilla ".”

Spain Seville Magellan

Book:Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe

Source: Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe

“If and when all the laws governing physical phenomena are finally discovered, and all the empirical constants occurring in these laws are finally expressed through the four independent basic constants, we will be able to say that physical science has reached its end, that no excitement is left in further explorations, and that all that remains to a physicist is either tedious work on minor details or the self-educational study and adoration of the magnificence of the completed system. At that stage physical science will enter from the epoch of Columbus and Magellan into the epoch of the National Geographic Magazine!”

Science Work Details Physics Exploration Physicist Tedious Columbus Magnificence Complete National Geographic Magellan Christopher Columbus Constants Ferdinand Magellan

Author:George Gamow

“People are, in the confines of their own apartments, becoming Magellans of the interior world and reaching out to this alien thing and beginning to map it and bring back stories that can only be compared to the kind of stories that the chroniclers of the New World brought back to Spain at the close of the 15th century.”

People World Kind Stories Century Becoming Aliens Reaching Maps New World Reach Out Apartment Interiors Spain Magellan

Author:Terence McKenna

“Like Magellan, let us find our islands To die in, far from home, from anywhere Familiar. Let us risk the wildest places, Lest we go down in comfort, and despair.”

Home Dies Risk Comfort Despair Familiar Islands Magellan

Book:New and selected poems

Source: New and selected poems

“It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.”

Enough Age Courage Blessed Individuality Conviction Birthday Magellan

Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“I've been reading and researching various aspects of history - Dickens' London, Nelson's sea battles, Magellan's nautical explorations, the weapons and battles and key figures of the American Civil War - for most of my life. I pick up a book here or there or see a documentary or talk with an expert in the subject, and my curiosity about the one area of study and discovery always leads to another.”

“The history of exploration has never been driven by exploration. But Columbus himself was a discoverer. So was Magellan. But the people who wrote checks were not. They had other motivations. And there's Columbus - he couldn't even get Italy to pay for his voyage so he has to go to Spain.”

People Motivation Pay Driven Checks Exploration Spain Voyages Columbus Magellan

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“I would love to do a western. I would love to play an explorer. That is always something that has really captured my imagination since I was a kid, like James Cook or Magellan or Earnest Shackleton.”

Play Kids Imagination Western Cooks Earnest My Imagination Captured Explorers Magellan Shackleton

Author:John C. Reilly

“So, Magellan, where are we going? (Danger) Away. I’m open to any location, so long as it doesn’t involve returning to your house while Wart-Head is there.”

Long House Danger Location Warts Magellan

Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon

“The Church says the Earth is flat. But I know that it is round. For I have seen the shadow on the Moon. And I have more faith in a shadow than in the Church.”

“The sea is dangerous and its storms terrible, but these obstacles have never been sufficient reason to remain ashore...unlike the mediocre, intrepid spirits seek victory over those things that seem impossible...it is with an iron will that they embark on the most daring of all endeavors...to meet the shadowy future without fear and conquer the unknown.”

Reason Seems Spirit Impossible Sea Dangerous Victory Terrible Exercise Obstacles Storm Flight Conquer Sufficient Aviation Iron Endeavor Daring Mediocre Iron Will Magellan

Author:Ferdinand Magellan

“Magellan went around the world in 1521, which is not too many strokes when you consider the distance.”

World Funny Distance Golf Around The World Strokes Magellan

Author:Joe Laurie, Jr.

“The Church says that the Earth is flat, but I know that it is round. For I have seen the shadow of the Earth on the moon, and I have more faith in the shadow than in the Church.”

Earth Church Moon Shadow Magellan

Author:Ferdinand Magellan

“It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions, -- some one who had the grandeur to say his say. I believe it was Magellan who said, The church says the earth is flat; but I have seen its shadow on the moon, and I have more confidence even in a shadow than in the church. On the prow of his ship were disobedience, defiance, scorn, and success.”

Believe Said Enough Age Earth Faith I Believe Church Moon Shadow Blessed Individuality Conviction Ships Flats Scorn Disobedience Grandeur Defiance Magellan

Book:The Gods, and Other Lectures

Source: The Gods, and Other Lectures