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Charles Hoy Fort (August 6, 1874 – May 3, 1932) was an American writer and researcher who specialized in anomalous phenomena. The terms Fortean and Forteana are sometimes used to characterize various such phenomena. Fort's books sold well and are still in print. His work continues to inspire admirers, who refer to themselves as "Forteans", and has influenced some aspects of science fiction.

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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.

Data, Merely, Mind, Miserly, Science

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

Assurance, Assurances, Goes On, Mystery, Solved

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.

Belief, Believe, Dowsing, May, Myth, Used

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.

Adjusts, Beautiful, Children, Completeness, Thinking, Venus

Against all the opposition in the world, I make this statement - that once I knew a magician. I was a witness of a performance that may some day be considered understandable, but that, in these primitive times, so transcends what is said to be the known that it is what I mean by magic.

Mean, Magic, World, Magician, Primitive

People with a psychological need to believe in marvels are no more prejudiced and gullible than people with a psychological need not to believe in marvels.

Believe, Marvels, People, Psychological Needs

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.

Action, Biologic, Equilibrium, Names, Phenomena

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.

Adjusting, Constructiveness, Growth, Science, Tree

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

Mind, Sane, Universal

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.

Enough, Humility, Nobler, Old Year, Years

If any spiritualistic medium can do stunts, there is no more need for special conditions than there is for a chemist to turn down lights, start operations with a hymn, and ask whether there's any chemical present that has affinity with something named Hydrogen.

Hymns, Light, Lights, Named, Special, Stunts

Do unto others as you would have them do unto you, and you will make of their circumstances the litter you have made of your own.

Circumstances, Do Unto Others, Litter, Made, Make

My liveliest interest is not so much in things, as in relations of things. I have spent much time thinking about the alleged pseudo-relations that are called coincidences. What if some of them should not be coincidences?

Alleged, Pseudo, Relations, Thinking, Time, What If

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

Octopus, Way, Stumps, Mutilated, Clipped

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.

Approximated, Errors, Negative, Science, Short, Taken

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

Doors, Explanation, Fate, Open, Science, Wide

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.

Form, Mean, Modify, Question, Truth

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

Data, Forts, Mean, Procession, Science

Science of to-day-the superstition of to-morrow. Science of to-morrow-the superstition of to-day.

Science, Superstition, Superstitions, Tomorrow

In measuring a circle, one begins anywhere.

Anywhere, Begins, Circle, Circles, Measuring

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