“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.” BelieveMayUsedBeliefScientistMythSuspicionPeasants Book:The Complete Books of Charles Fort Source: The Complete Books of Charles Fort
“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. Other times I have joys, when unexpectedly coming upon an outrageous story that may not be altogether a lie, or upon a macabre little thing that may make some reviewer of my more or less good works mad. But always there is present a feeling of unexplained relations of events that I note, and it is this far-away, haunting, or often taunting, awareness, or suspicion, that keeps me piling on.” MayLittlesSometimesStoriesFeelingsJoyLyingAwarenessEventsRelationMadNotesStoresDataLittle ThingsFar AwaySuspicionGood WorkGrossHauntingOutrageousCollectorsReviewersTauntingUnexplainedMacabre Book:Wild Talents Source: Wild Talents
“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.” WorldMayMeanSaidKnownMagicPerformancesStatementsWitnessOppositionPrimitiveMagician Book:Wild Talents Source: Wild Talents
