Charles Fort was born on August 6, 1874 in Albany, New York, USA. He was married to Anna Filian. He died on May 3, 1932 in New York City, New York, USA.
Tiffany Thayer founded The Fortean Society to promote Fort's ideas regarding anomalous phenomena; Theodore Dreiser was its first president. Colin Wilson has denounced Fort as "a patron of cranks": "Fort's principle goes something like this: 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.".
The Magazine "Fortean Times" was founded in his honour. There is a panel describing his philosophy in every issue.
If there is a Universal Mind, does it have to be sane?
One can't be of an enquiring and experimental nature, and still be very sensible.
A procession of the damned. By the damned, I mean the excluded. We shall have a procession of data that Science has excluded.
Science of to-day-the superstition of to-morrow. Science of to-morrow-the superstition of to-day.
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.