Frases de Charles Fort
Charles Fort
Fecha de nacimiento: 6. Agosto 1874
Fecha de muerte: 3. Mayo 1932
Otros nombres: Чарльз Форт
Charles Hoy Fort fue un investigador estadounidense, conocido por dedicarse al estudio de fenómenos anómalos no solventados por la ciencia de su época. Los términos «forteano» y «forteana» se usan a veces para caracterizar tales fenómenos. Su obra sigue inspirando a admiradores, que se refieren a sí mismos como «forteanos», y ha influido en algunos aspectos de la ciencia ficción. Wikipedia
Frases Charles Fort
„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.“
Fuente: The Book of The Damned (1919), Ch. 1, part 4 at resologist.net
„Everywhere is the tabooed, or the disregarded. The monks of science dwell in smuggeries that are walled away from event-jungles. Or some of them do. Nowadays a good many of them are going native.“
Ch. 13 http://www.resologist.net/talent13.htm
Wild Talents (1932)
„If there is an underlying oneness of all things, it does not matter where we begin“
— Charles Fort, libro Lo!
Pt 1, Ch. 1 http://www.resologist.net/lo101.htm
Lo! (1931)
Contexto: If there is an underlying oneness of all things, it does not matter where we begin, whether with stars, or laws of supply and demand, or frogs, or Napoleon Bonaparte. One measures a circle, beginning anywhere.
„My liveliest interest is not so much in things, as in relations of things.“
Ch. 2 http://www.resologist.net/talent02.htm
Wild Talents (1932)
Contexto: 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?
„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.“
— Charles Fort, libro Lo!
Pt 1, Ch. 4 http://www.resologist.net/lo104.htm
Lo! (1931)
Contexto: 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 can not 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. For whatever is supposed to be meant by progress, there is no need in human minds for standards of their own: this is in the sense that no part of a growing plant needs guidance of its own devising, nor special knowledge of its own as to how to become a leaf or a root. It needs no base of its own, because the relative wholeness of the plant is relative baseness to its parts. At the same time, in the midst of this theory of submergence, I do not accept that human minds are absolute nonentities, just as I do not accept that a leaf, or a root, of a plant, though so dependent upon a main body, and so clearly only a part, is absolutely without something of an individualizing touch of its own.
It is the problem of continuity-discontinuity, which perhaps I shall have to take up sometime.
„If there is an underlying oneness of all things, it does not matter where we begin, whether with stars, or laws of supply and demand, or frogs, or Napoleon Bonaparte. One measures a circle, beginning anywhere.“
— Charles Fort, libro Lo!
Pt 1, Ch. 1 http://www.resologist.net/lo101.htm
Lo! (1931)
„My general expression is that all human beings who can do anything; and dogs that track unseen quarry, and homing pigeons, and bird-charming snakes, and caterpillars who transform into butterflies, are magicians.“
Ch. 27 http://www.resologist.net/talent27.htm
Wild Talents (1932)
Contexto: My general expression is that all human beings who can do anything; and dogs that track unseen quarry, and homing pigeons, and bird-charming snakes, and caterpillars who transform into butterflies, are magicians. … Considering modern data, it is likely that many of the fakirs of the past, who are now known as saints, did, or to some degree did, perform the miracles that have been attributed to them. Miracles, or stunts, that were in accord with the dominant power of the period were fostered, and miracles that conflicted with, or that did not contribute to, the glory of the Church, were discouraged, or were savagely suppressed. There could be no development of mechanical, chemical, or electric miracles —
And that, in the succeeding age of Materialism — or call it the Industrial Era — there is the same state of subservience to a dominant, so that young men are trained to the glory of the job, and dream and invent in fields that are likely to interest stockholders, and are schooled into thinking that all magics, except their own industrial magics, are fakes, superstitions, or newspaper yarns.
„Scientists who have thought that they were seeking Truth, but who were trying to find out astronomic, or chemic, or biologic truths. 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.“
Fuente: The Book of The Damned (1919), Ch. 1, part 4 at resologist.net
„It is our expression that the flux between that which isn't and that which won't be, or the state that is commonly and absurdly called "existence," is a rhythm of heavens and hells: that the damned won't stay damed; that salvation only precedes perdition.“
Fuente: The Book of The Damned (1919), Ch. 1, part 2 at resologist.net
„A procession of the damned.
By the damned, I mean the excluded.
We shall have a procession of data that Science has excluded.
Battalions of the accursed, captained by pallid data that I have exhumed, will march. You'll read them — or they'll march. Some of them livid and some of them fiery and some of them rotten.“
Ch. 1, part 1 at resologist.net http://www.resologist.net/damn01.htm Ch. 1 at sacred-texts.com http://www.sacred-texts.com/fort/damn/damn01.htm
The Book of The Damned (1919)
„The fate of all explanation is to close one door only to have another fly wide open.“
Fuente: The Book of The Damned (1919), Ch. 3, part 2 at resologist.net
„There are cynics who deny the existence of human gratitude. But it seems that I am no cynic. So convinced am I of the existence of gratitude that I see in it one of our strongest oppositions. There are millions of persons who receive favors that they forget: but gratitude does exist, and they've got to express it somewhere. They take it out by being grateful to science for all that science has done for them, a gratitude, which, according to their dull perceptions won't cost them anything. So there is economic indignation against anybody who is disagreeable to science. He is trying to rob the people of a cheap gratitude.
I like a bargain as well as does anybody else, but I can't save expenses by being grateful to Science, if for every scientist who has perhaps been of benefit to me, there have been many other scientists who have tried to strangle that possible benefit.“
— Charles Fort, libro Lo!
Pt 1, Ch. 4
Lo! (1931)
„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.“
— Charles Fort, libro Lo!
Pt 1, Ch. 5 http://www.resologist.net/lo105.htm
Lo! (1931)
„Would we if we could, educate and sophisticate pigs, geese, cattle? Would it be wise to establish diplomatic relations with the hen that now functions, satisfied with mere sense of achievement by way of compensation? I think we're property“
Fuente: The Book of The Damned (1919), Ch. 12 at resologist.net
„The fittest survive.
What is meant by the fittest?
Not the strongest; not the cleverest —
Weakness and stupidity everywhere survive.
There is no way of determining fitness except in that a thing does survive.
"Fitness," then, is only another name for "survival."“
Darwinism:
That survivors survive.
Fuente: The Book of The Damned (1919), Ch. 3, part 1 at resologist.net
