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Do you want power over something? Be more nearly real than it.
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All biologic phenomena act to adjust: there are no biologic actions other than adjustments. Adjustment is another name for Equilibrium. Equilibrium is the Universal, or that which has nothing external to derange it.
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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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It is not possible to define. Nothing has ever been finally found out. Because there is nothing final to find out.
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I have gone into the outer darkness of scientific and philosophical transactions and proceedings, ultra-respectable, but covered with the dust of disregard. I have descended into journalism. I have come back with the quasi-souls of lost data.
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In Continuity, it is impossible to distinguish phenomena at their merging-points, so we look for them at their extremes. Impossible to distinguish between animal and vegetable in some infusoria - but hippopotamus and violet. For all practical purposes they're distinguishable enough.
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The history of science is a record of the transformations of contempts amd amusements.
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If the Law of Gravitation could be stated as a real utterance, it might be a real resistance to us. But we are told only that gravitation is gravitation.
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The theologians have recognized that the ideal is the imitation of God. If we be a part of such an organic thing, this thing is God to us, as I am God to the cells that compose me.
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The interpretations will be mine, but the data will be for anybody to form his own opinions on.
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If a comet have not the orbit that astronomers have predicted - perturbed. If - like Halley's comet - it be late - even a year late - perturbed. When a train is an hour late, we have small opinion of the predictions of time tables. When a comet's a year late, all we ask is - that it be explained.
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There never is a moment when there is not some comet in the sky. Virtually there is no year in which several new comets are not discovered, so plentiful are they. Luminous fleas on a vast black dog - in popular impressions, there is no realization of the extent to which this solar system is flea-bitten.
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A whirlwind runs amok, and is filled with confusions...
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When we come upon assurances that a mystery has been solved, we go on investigating.
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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 nobler and nobler. If I can live to be decrepit enough, I shall be a saint.
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In 1846, everyone who knew a sine from a cosine was out sining and cosining for a planet beyond Uranus. Two of them guessed right.
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One can't be of an enquiring and experimental nature, and still be very sensible.
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If nobody looks up, or checks up, what the astronomers tell us, they are free to tell us anything that they want to tell us.
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The great difficulty that authoritativeness has to contend with is some other authoritativeness.
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Unknown, luminous things, or beings, have often been seen, sometimes close to this earth, and sometimes high in the sky. It may be that some of them were living things that occasionally come from somewhere else in our existence, but that others were lights on vessels of explorers, or voyagers, from somewhere else.
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There is not a physicist in the world who can perceive when a parlor magician palms off playing-cards.
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A river... is water expressing the gravitational relation of different levels.
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If human thought is a growth, like all other growths, its logic is without foundation of its own, and is only the adjusting constructiveness of all other growing things. A tree cannot find out, as it were, how to blossom, until comes blossom-time. A social growth cannot find out the use of steam engines, until comes steam-engine-time.
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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.
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The tornado came wriggling, jumping, whirling like a great green snake, darting out a score of glistening fangs.
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Born:
August 6, 1874
Died:
May 3, 1932
(aged 57)
Bio:
Charles Hoy Fort was 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.
Known for:
The Book of the Damned (1919)
Wild Talents (1932)
New Lands (1923)
The Outcast Manufacturers (1909)
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