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But Truth is that besides which there is nothing: nothing to modify it, nothing to question it, nothing to form an exception: the all-inclusive, the complete - By Truth, I mean the Universal.

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Charles Fort
Age: 57 †
Born: 1874
Born: August 6
Died: 1932
Died: May 3
Autobiographer
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Science Fiction Writer
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Albany
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Charles Hoy Fort
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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 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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When we come upon assurances that a mystery has been solved, we go on investigating.
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The history of science is a record of the transformations of contempts amd amusements.
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The Earth is a farm. We are someone else's property.
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Existence is Appetite: the gnaw of being the one attempt of all things to assimilate to some higher attempt.
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I think, therefore I'm going to have breakfast.
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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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I shut the front door upon Christ and Einstein, and at the back door hold out a welcoming hand to little frogs and periwinkles. I believe nothing of my own that I have ever written. I cannot accept that the products of minds are subject-matter for beliefs.
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One can't learn much and also be comfortable One can't learn much and let anybody else be comfortable
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Every science is a mutilated octopus. If its tentacles were not clipped to stumps, it would feel its way into disturbing contacts.
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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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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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I believe nothing of my own that I have ever written.
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One can't be of an enquiring and experimental nature, and still be very sensible.
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