Fredric March credited as playing...
Christopher Columbus
- 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.
- 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.