70 Quotes by Charles Fort

Every science is a mutilated octopus. If its tentacles were not clipped to stumps, it would feel its way into disturbing contacts.

I believe nothing of my own that I have ever written.

A procession of the damned. By the damned, I mean the excluded. We shall have a procession of data that Science has excluded.

The fate of all explanation is to close one door only to have another fly wide open.

I think, therefore I'm going to have breakfast.

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.

In measuring a circle, one begins anywhere.

When we come upon assurances that a mystery has been solved, we go on investigating.

If there is a true universal mind, must it be sane?