Charles Fort - Quotations

Quotations

• "Now there are so many scientists who believe in dowsing, that the suspicion comes to me that it may be only a myth after all."
• "One measures a circle, beginning anywhere."
• "My own notion is that it is very unsportsmanlike to ever mention fraud. Accept anything. Then explain it your way."
• "But my liveliest interest is not so much in things, as in relations of things. I have spent much time thinking about the alleged pseudo-relations that are called coincidences. What if some of them should not be coincidence?"
• "If any spiritualistic medium can do stunts, there is no more need for special conditions than there is for a chemist to turn down lights, start operations with a hymn, and ask whether there's any chemical present that has affinity with something named Hydrogen."
• "The Earth is a farm. We are someone else's property."
• "Do you want power over something? Be more nearly real than it."
• "I conceive of nothing, in religion, science or philosophy, that is more than the proper thing to wear, for a while."

A quotation often attributed to Fort is "If there is a universal mind, must it be sane?" This quote is from Damon Knight's 1970 biography, Charles Fort : Prophet of the Unexplained.