Geographic Knowledge Discovery

Famous quotes containing the words knowledge and/or discovery:

    “The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.”
    —John Locke (1632–1704)

    “However backwards the world has been in former ages in the discovery of such points as GOD never meant us to know,—we have been more successful in our own days:Mthousands can trace out now the impressions of this divine intercourse in themselves, from the first moment they received it, and with such distinct intelligence of its progress and workings, as to require no evidence of its truth.”
    —Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)