"If any spiritualistic medium can do stunts, there……" — Charles Fort
"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, start operations with a hymn, and ask whether there's any chemical present that has affinity with something named Hydrogen."
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Charles Fort
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32 Quotes by Charles Fort
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Science of to-day-the superstition of to-morrow. Science of to-morrow-the superstition of to-day.
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One can't be of an enquiring and experimental nature, and still be very sensible.
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Sometimes I am a collector of data, and only a collector, and am likely to be gross and miserly, piling…
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But Truth is that besides which there is nothing: nothing to modify it, nothing to question it, nothing to form…
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In measuring a circle, one begins anywhere.
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The fittest survive. What is meant by the fittest? Not the strongest; not the cleverest - weakness and stupidity everywhere…
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Peasants have believed in dowsing, and scientists used to believe that dowsing was only a belief of peasants. Now there…
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The Earth is a farm. We are someone else's property.
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People with a psychological need to believe in marvels are no more prejudiced and gullible than people with a psychological…
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I believe nothing of my own that I have ever written.
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The ideal state is meekness, or humility, or the semi-invalid state of the old. Year after year I am becoming…
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All biologic phenomena act to adjust: there are no biologic actions other than adjustments. Adjustment is another name for Equilibrium.…
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More Affinity Quotes
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Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the temperaments and the intellectual affinities of men are unlimited in…
— Sri Aurobindo
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Something very significant appears to be happening in America. There is a dramatic shift in voter affinity toward the GOP,…
— Bob Beauprez
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Most of the ancestors that I can trace were born here in the United States of America. And then it…
— Herman Cain
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Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent…
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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I don't know why women feel an affinity with me.
— Jennifer Aniston
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The first precept in Buddhism is "Do not kill." This precept is not merely a legalistic prohibition, but a realization…
— Unknown Author
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If there is a God, He is infinitely incomprehensible, since, having, neither parts nor limits, He has no affinity to…
— Blaise Pascal
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The profoundest affinities are those most readily felt.
— George Santayana
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A man is known by the books he reads, by the company he keeps, by the praise he gives, by…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Creativity begins with an affinity for something. It's like falling in love.
— Howard Gardner
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If we range through the whole territory of nature, and endeavour to extract from each department the rich stores of…
— Joseph Paxton
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I repeat again: the male mind is egoistic. You have to learn the way of the feminine, you have to…
— Rajneesh
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