"[Wise men] have tried to understand our state……" — Charles Fort
"[Wise men] have tried to understand our state of being, by grasping at its stars, or its arts, or its economics. But, if there is an underlying oneness of all things, it does not matter where we begin, whether with stars, or laws of supply and demand, or frogs, or Napoleon Bonaparte. One measures a circle, beginning anywhere."
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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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