Charles Fort Quotes About Science
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The history of science is a record of the transformations of contempts amd amusements.
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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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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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The fate of all explanation is to close one door only to have another fly wide open.
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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.
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One can't be of an enquiring and experimental nature, and still be very sensible.
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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.
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I conceive of nothing, in religion, science or philosophy, that is more than the proper thing to wear, for a while.
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