70 Quotes by Charles Fort

A good many brats are brought up, in the straight and narrow, somewhat deviously.

The Earth is a farm. We are someone else’s property.

One can’t learn much and also be comfortable One can’t learn much and let anybody else be comfortable.

Science is a turtle that says that its own shell encloses all things.

Sometimes I am a collector of data, and only a collector, and am likely to be gross and miserly, piling up notes, pleased with merely numerically adding to my stores.

All would be well. All would be heavenly – If the damned would only stay damned.

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.

It’s like looking for a needle that no one ever lost in a haystack that never was –.

I think we’re all bugs and mice, and are only different expressions of an all-inclusive cheese.