Quotes About Explorers

The best record of what befell the explorers comes from the pen of Peter Martyr

they had gone ashore, they would have encountered an animal paradise of foxes, hares, puma, peregrine falcons, owls

If this was the map Magellan had in mind, it would have been nearly useless in trying to find the strait.

Magellan refused to consider this huge bay as anything more than that.

Heaving long passed the point of no return to South America

Santiago's crew soon discovered that food was even more plentiful around the Santa Cruz River

than at Port Saint Julian, and Serrano decided to linger for six days to fish and hunt for sea elephants.

Surviving shipwrecks and pirates, Serrão and several companions arrived at Ternate

they had arrived at the Strait of Magellan

Or so Feynman argued: the philosophers themselves, he said, were always a tempo behind, like tourists moving in after the explorers have left.

Mars is key to humanity's future in space. It is the closest planet that has all the resources needed to support life and technological civilization. Its complexity uniquely demands the skills of human explorers, who will pave the way for human settlers.

What they've found so far in the Amazon is 5 percent of what there is yet to discover to eat in the Amazon because it's completely unknown. I've eaten things I've never eaten before over there.

There was a whole subculture of mentalists who spent their nights breaking into boarded-up tube stations, forgotten sewers, abandoned buildings, and other places you just aren't meant to be.

at a place not far from their actual

I think our storytellers - our songwriters should be great storytellers, and they should be mountain climbers and explorers, because music is something that can cross all different borders.

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

The stone technology of the Tasmanians, when first encountered by European explorers in A.D. 1642, was simpler than that prevalent in parts of Upper Paleolithic Europe tens of thousands of years earlier.

Now all the mountains had been conquered and astronauts had walked in space. There were no more islands on earth—no matter how small—left to be discovered.

Tazburg, Mise, Divine, South Ridge." He read the names off the

The arrival of the Portuguese explorers and traders on the sub-Saharan African coast in the early 1400s would ultimately represent a major new development in the history of the slave trade in Africa in terms of the intensity of its development, the sources of its slaves, and the uses to which its slaves would be put. But initially there was little to distinguish the Portuguese traders from the Muslim traders of North Africa and the sub-Saharan regions.

For over a century, an evolving microcosm of Anthropology's turbulent history has hidden behind the staid façade of the American Museum of Natural History. From an insider's perspective, the well-known ethnologist Stan Freed engagingly introduces us to an amazing cast of explorers, eccentrics, idealists, pranksters and forbidding intellectual - an unlikely mix that played a key role in establishing the science of Anthropology as we know it today.

Let's join the others," he said eventually. "They've probably discovered a variety of moss we haven't yet seen. Or God help us, a mushroom." The pinching tightness eased from her chest. "I'm hoping for some lichen, myself.

Siamo chimici, cioè cacciatori

I have observed that the world has suffered far less from ignorance than from pretensions to knowledge. It is not skeptics or explorers but fanatics and ideologues who menace decency and progress.