The fittest survive. What is meant by the fittest? Not the strongest; not the cleverest - weakness and stupidity everywhere survive. There… — Charles Fort Copy Share Image
A procession of the damned. By the damned, I mean the excluded. We shall have a procession of data that Science has… — Charles Fort Copy Share Image
Sometimes I am a collector of data, and only a collector, and am likely to be gross and miserly, piling up notes,… — Charles Fort Copy Share Image
Sometimes I am a collector of data, and only a collector, and am likely to be gross and miserly, piling up notes, pleased with… — Charles Fort Copy Share
[Wise men] have tried to understand our state of being, by grasping at its stars, or its arts, or its economics. But, if there… — Charles Fort Copy Share
The ideal state is meekness, or humility, or the semi-invalid state of the old. Year after year I am becoming nobler and nobler. If… — Charles Fort Copy Share
Against all the opposition in the world, I make this statement - that once I knew a magician. I was a witness of a… — Charles Fort Copy Share
“There is a continuity of all things that make classifications fictions. But all human knowledge depends upon arrangements. Then all books--scientific, theological, philosophical--are only… — Charles Fort Copy Share
“Is life worth living? Like everybody else, I have many times asked that question, usually deciding negatively, because I am most likely to ask… — Charles Fort Copy Share
All would be well. All would be heavenly--If the damned would only stay damned. — Charles Fort Copy Share
I have taken the stand that nobody can be always wrong, but it does seem to me that I have approximated so highly that… — Charles Fort Copy Share
“I sent letters of enquiry to all persons whose names were given, and received not one reply. There are several ways of explaining. One… — Charles Fort Copy Share
“We cannot define. Nothing has ever been finally figured out, because there is nothing final to figure out” — Charles Fort Copy Share
The fate of all explanation is to close one door only to have another fly wide open. — Charles Fort Copy Share
The history of science is a record of the transformations of contempts amd amusements. — Charles Fort Copy Share
“I am a collector of notes upon subjects that have diversity — such as deviations from concentricity in the lunar crater Copernicus, and a… — Charles Fort Copy Share
“It is our expression that the flux between that which isn't and that which won't be, or the state that is commonly and absurdly… — Charles Fort Copy Share
