"I believe it was Magellan who said, "The church says the earth is flat; but I have seen its shadow on the moon, and I have more confidence even in a shadow than in the church.""
— Faith

January 1, 1970

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Robert Green Ingersoll, "Individuality" (1873), as no source has been found of Ferdinand Magellan saying this, Ingersoll likely misattributed it to him, perhaps from some contemporary anecdote.