Christopher Columbus1949

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.