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Astrology Quotes by Richard Dawkins
- We should take astrology seriously. No, I don't mean we should believe in it. I am talking about fighting it seriously instead of humouring it…
- Scientific truth is too beautiful to be sacrificed for the sake of light entertainment or money. Astrology is an aesthetic affront. It cheapens astronomy, like…
- Religion ends and philosophy begins, just as alchemy ends and chemistry begins, and astrology ends and astronomy begins.
- Astrology is an aesthetic affront. It cheapens astronomy, like using Beethoven for commercial jingles.
More Astrology Quotes
- I don't believe in astrology; I'm a Sagittarius and we're skeptical. — Arthur C. Clarke
- Nature may be as selfishly studied as trade. Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology; psychology, mesmerism (with intent to show where aour… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- But just as astronomy succeeded astrology, following Kepler's discovery of planetary regularities, the discoveries of these many principles in empirical explorations of… — Marvin Minsky
- All Pretences of foretelling by Astrology, are Deceits; for this manifest Reason, because the Wise and Learned, who can only judge whether… — Jonathan Swift
- That we can now think of no mechanism for astrology is relevant but unconvincing. No mechanism was known, for example, for continental… — Carl Sagan
- The question of all questions for humanity, the problem which lies behind all others and is more interesting than any of them,… — Thomas Huxley
- Men should take their knowledge from the Sun, the Moon and the Stars. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Astrology: do we make a hullabaloo among the stars, or do they make a hullabaloo down here? — Mason Cooley
- Millionaires don't have astrologers, billionaires do. — J. P. Morgan
- The controls of life are structured as forms and nuclear arrangements, in a relation with the motions of the universe. — Louis Pasteur
- Anyone can be a millionaire, but to become a billionaire you need an astrologer. — J. P. Morgan
- If the people were a little more ignorant, astrology would flourish - if a little more enlightened, religion would perish. — Robert Green Ingersoll