"We should take astrology seriously. No, I don't……" — 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 as a piece of harmless fun."
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530 Quotes by Richard Dawkins
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Natural selection is the blind watchmaker, blind because it does not see ahead, does not plan consequences, has no purpose…
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It is a remarkable coincidence that almost everyone has the same religion as their parents and it always just so…
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I believe that an orderly universe, one indifferent to human preoccupations, in which everything has an explanation even if we…
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Certainly I see the scientific view of the world as incompatible with religion, but that is not what is interesting…
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Scientific beliefs are supported by evidence, and they get results. Myths and faiths are not and do not.
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If circumcision has any justification AT ALL, it should be medical only. Parents' religion is the worst of all reasons…
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I've been reading an Alabama newspaper that one man shot another man because he beat him in a Bible-quoting competition.
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Science, as opposed to technology, does violence to common sense.
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Do you advocate the Ten Commandments as a guide to the good life? Then I can only presume that you…
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Evolution is as much a fact as the heat of the sun.
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'Take offense at the drop of a hat' is the unwritten eleventh commandment.
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More Astrology Quotes
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I don't believe in astrology; I'm a Sagittarius and we're skeptical.
— Arthur C. Clarke
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Nature may be as selfishly studied as trade. Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology; psychology, mesmerism (with intent to show…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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But just as astronomy succeeded astrology, following Kepler's discovery of planetary regularities, the discoveries of these many principles in empirical…
— Marvin Minsky
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All Pretences of foretelling by Astrology, are Deceits; for this manifest Reason, because the Wise and Learned, who can only…
— Jonathan Swift
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That we can now think of no mechanism for astrology is relevant but unconvincing. No mechanism was known, for example,…
— Carl Sagan
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The question of all questions for humanity, the problem which lies behind all others and is more interesting than any…
— Thomas Huxley
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Men should take their knowledge from the Sun, the Moon and the Stars.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Astrology: do we make a hullabaloo among the stars, or do they make a hullabaloo down here?
— Mason Cooley
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Millionaires don't have astrologers, billionaires do.
— J. P. Morgan
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The controls of life are structured as forms and nuclear arrangements, in a relation with the motions of the universe.
— Louis Pasteur
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Anyone can be a millionaire, but to become a billionaire you need an astrologer.
— J. P. Morgan
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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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