Charles Fort

“One measures a circle, beginning anywhere.”

“We are property.”

“By the damned, I mean the excluded.”

“The Earth is a farm. We are someone else's property.”

“I conceive of nothing, in religion, science, or philosophy, that is more than the proper thing to wear, for a while.”

“I believe nothing of my own that I have ever written.”

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

“Every science is a mutilated octopus.”

“Science is a smirking ignoramus.”

“The great trouble with Science is that it is not humble.”

“A social growth cannot find out the use of steam engines, until comes steam-engine-time.”

“We shall have a procession of data that Science has excluded.”

“To be is to be balanced.”

“Power would be a joke if it were not so melancholy.”

“Every living thing is a masterpiece, written by itself, revised by the universe.”