Wilson called Fort's writing style "atrocious" and "almost unreadable", yet despite his objections to Fort's prose, he allowed that "the facts are certainly astonishing enough." In the end, Fort's work gave him "the feeling that no matter how honest scientists "think" they are, they are still influenced by various "unconscious" assumptions that prevent them from attaining true objectivity. Expressed in a sentence, 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."