"Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology." — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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• 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… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• But just as astronomy succeeded astrology, following Kepler's discovery of planetary regularities, the discoveries of these many principles in empirical… — Marvin Minsky
• All Pretences of foretelling by Astrology, are Deceits; for this manifest Reason, because the Wise and Learned, who can only… — Jonathan Swift
• That we can now think of no mechanism for astrology is relevant but unconvincing. No mechanism was known, for example,… — Carl Sagan
• The question of all questions for humanity, the problem which lies behind all others and is more interesting than any… — 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

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