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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.

Charles Fort

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Charles Fort
Age: 57 †
Born: 1874
Born: August 6
Died: 1932
Died: May 3
Autobiographer
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Albany
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Charles Hoy Fort
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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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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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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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The ideal state is meekness, or humility, or the semi-invalid state of the old. Year after year I am becoming nobler and nobler. If I can live to be decrepit enough, I shall be a saint.
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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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A procession of the damned. By the damned, I mean the excluded. We shall have a procession of data that Science has excluded.
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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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One can't learn much and also be comfortable One can't learn much and let anybody else be comfortable
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The history of science is a record of the transformations of contempts amd amusements.
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Venus de Milo. To a child she is ugly. When a mind adjusts to thinking of her as a completeness, even though, by physiologic standards, incomplete, she is beautiful.
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Do you want power over something? Be more nearly real than it.
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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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The Earth is a farm. We are someone else's property.
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It is not possible to define. Nothing has ever been finally found out. Because there is nothing final to find out.
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