If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn't turn out well for the Native Americans.
America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.
Why is it that many contemporary male thinkers, especially men of color, repudiate the imperialist legacy of Columbus but affirm dimensions of that legacy by their refusal to repudiate patriarchy?
I think this is just the natural progression of Columbus gangs. They are getting older now, and they are looking for newer markets. We're really seeing them spreading throughout the state, especially south.
Everybody in 15th century Spain was wrong about where China was and as a result, Columbus discovered Caribbean vacations.
The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.
Why wasn't Christopher Columbus able to discover Spain?
The usual rejoinder to someone who says 'They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Galileo' is to say 'But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown'.
Columbus real achievement was managing to cross the ocean successfully in both directions. Though an accomplished enough mariner, he was not terribly good at a great deal else, especially geography, the skill that would seem most vital in an explorer.
I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. [It allows you to] be the Mungo Park, the Lewis and Clark of your own streams and oceans; [to] explore your own higher latitudes; [to] be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.
Christopher Columbus was the first socialist: he didn't know where he was going, he didn?t know where he was? and he did it all at taxpayers expense.
The true America is the Middle West, and Columbus discovered nothing at all except another Europe.
My brother was a year younger than I am and he was never in the home with me hardly at all,. . . My mom had to take him to every school there possibly was to get him some education. He ended up first in Columbus, Ohio, for grade school, then went to a high school for the deaf and Galludet in Washington.
The cruel policy initiated by Columbus and pursued by his successors resulted in complete genocide.
If America had been discovered as many times as I have, no one would remember Columbus.
If Columbus had an advisory committee he would probably still be at the dock.
Cezanne is the Christopher Columbus of a new continent of form.
Christopher Columbus, who said to Queen Isabella, No, you got it wrong! The world is round. You're flat! Never got a dinner!
Every schoolchild knows that Columbus set out across the sea to prove that the world was round. But the belief in a spherical earth had a long and illustrious pedigree, as Columbus himself was well aware. . . . "The second reason that inspired the Admiral [Columbus] to launch his enterprise and helped justify his giving the name 'Indies' to the lands which he discovered was the authority of many learned men who said that one could sail westward from the western end of Africa and Spain to the eastern end of India, and that no great sea lay between. "
Should we stop celebrating the Columbus day - the day when the first illegal immigrants entered America?