Charles Fort Quotes

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• Science of to-day-the superstition of to-morrow. Science of to-morrow-the superstition of to-day.
• One can't be of an enquiring and experimental nature, and still be very sensible.
• Sometimes I am a collector of data, and only a collector, and am likely to be gross and miserly, piling up notes, pleased with merely…
• But Truth is that besides which there is nothing: nothing to modify it, nothing to question it, nothing to form an exception: the all-inclusive, the…
• In measuring a circle, one begins anywhere.
• The fittest survive. What is meant by the fittest? Not the strongest; not the cleverest - weakness and stupidity everywhere survive. There is no way…
• Peasants have believed in dowsing, and scientists used to believe that dowsing was only a belief of peasants. Now there are so many scientists who…
• The Earth is a farm. We are someone else's property.
• People with a psychological need to believe in marvels are no more prejudiced and gullible than people with a psychological need not to believe in…
• I believe nothing of my own that I have ever written.
• 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 I…
• All biologic phenomena act to adjust: there are no biologic actions other than adjustments. Adjustment is another name for Equilibrium. Equilibrium is the Universal, or…
• The theologians have recognized that the ideal is the imitation of God. If we be a part of such an organic thing, this thing is…
• Venus de Milo. To a child she is ugly. When a mind adjusts to thinking of her as a completeness, even though, by physiologic standards,…
• The outrageous is the reasonable, if introduced politely.
• The fate of all explanation is to close one door only to have another fly wide open.
• Existence is Appetite: the gnaw of being; the one attempt of all things to assimilate to some higher attempt.
• I shut the front door upon Christ and Einstein, and at the back door hold out a welcoming hand to little frogs and periwinkles. I…
• If any spiritualistic medium can do stunts, there is no more need for special conditions than there is for a chemist to turn down lights,…
• Do you want power over something? Be more nearly real than it.

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