"The fate of all explanation is to close……" — Charles Fort
"The fate of all explanation is to close one door only to have another fly wide open."
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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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