"The history of science is a record of……" — Charles Fort
"The history of science is a record of the transformations of contempts amd amusements."
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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 Amusement Quotes
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one of 346 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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To me, watching a movie is like going to an amusement park. My worst fear is making a film that…
— Darren Aronofsky
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If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the…
— Honore de Balzac
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Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their…
— George Bancroft
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Never let a fool kiss you, or a kiss fool you.
— Joey Adams
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Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement... for transfiguration, not for the sake of play.
— Max Beckmann
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To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.
— Joseph Addison
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I was actually the manager of the games department of an amusement park when I was at college, so I…
— Nolan Bushnell
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While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept…
— Lewis Carroll
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I read with some amusement my reputation as a ladies' man. My friends are amused by that, too, because they…
— Leonard Cohen
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Newton took no exercise, indulged in no amusements, and worked incessantly, often spending eighteen or nineteen hours out of the…
— W. W. Rouse Ball
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Drawing ... is an innocent & engaging amusement, often useful, and a qualification not to be neglected in one who…
— Thomas Jefferson
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I have always thought that one man of tolerable abilities may work great changes, and accomplish great affairs among mankind,…
— Benjamin Franklin
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