Charles Fort
Charles Fort
Charles Hoy Fortwas an American writer and researcher into anomalous phenomena. Today, the terms Fortean and Forteana are used to characterize various such phenomena. Fort's books sold well and are still in print today. His work continues to inspire people, who call themselves Forteans, and has influenced some aspects of science fiction...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth6 August 1874
CountryUnited States of America
made circumstances do-unto-others
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you, and you will make of their circumstances the litter you have made of your own.
science superstitions morrow
Science of to-day-the superstition of to-morrow. Science of to-morrow-the superstition of to-day.
mind sensible stills
One can't be of an enquiring and experimental nature, and still be very sensible.
humility years old-year
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 can live to be decrepit enough, I shall be a saint.
names stupidity survival
The fittest survive. What is meant by the fittest? Not the strongest; not the cleverest - weakness and stupidity everywhere survive. There is no way of determining fitness except in that a thing does survive. 'Fitness,' then, is only another name for 'survival.' Darwinism: That survivors survive.
believe may belief
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 believe in dowsing that the suspicion comes to me that it may only be a myth after all.
cards world parlor-games
There is not a physicist in the world who can perceive when a parlor magician palms off playing-cards.
mean magic world
Against all the opposition in the world, I make this statement - that once I knew a magician. I was a witness of a performance that may some day be considered understandable, but that, in these primitive times, so transcends what is said to be the known that it is what I mean by magic.
octopus way tentacles
Every science is a mutilated octopus. If its tentacles were not clipped to stumps, it would feel its way into disturbing contacts.
believe i-believe written
I believe nothing of my own that I have ever written.
mean data forts
A procession of the damned. By the damned, I mean the excluded. We shall have a procession of data that Science has excluded.
fate doors explanation
The fate of all explanation is to close one door only to have another fly wide open.
thinking breakfast
I think, therefore I'm going to have breakfast.
taken science errors
I have taken the stand that nobody can be always wrong, but it does seem to me that I have approximated so highly that I am nothing short of a negative genius.