Christopher Columbus (1949)
Fredric March: Christopher Columbus
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Father Perez : I see you're a scholar, my son, as well as a traveler.
Christopher Columbus : Certainly a traveler, Father. I've sailed as far north as Iceland, as far south as Guinea, and eastward to the Golden Horn.
Father Perez : But that is to have reached the limits of the World.
Christopher Columbus : Of the known world? Yes, Father, but the actual world... not by a thousand leagues.
Father Perez : How can you say that - never having seen it?
Christopher Columbus : Have you ever seen Heaven or Hell?
Father Perez : We have sound reasons for believing they exist.
Christopher Columbus : I have sound reasons too.
Father Perez : What are they?
Christopher Columbus : The same as yours, Father, and revelations to which I can add cosmography and mathematics.
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Christopher Columbus : [as he and Diego observe a native smoking tobacco] Doesn't that prove how backward they are? You never see a civilized man do that.
