Any Quote by Seth Shostak

It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this…

— Plato

For it is obvious to everybody, I think, that this study [of astronomy] compels the soul to look upward and leads it away from…

— Plato

Scientific truth is too beautiful to be sacrificed for the sake of light entertainment or money. Astrology is an aesthetic affront. It cheapens astronomy,…

— Richard Dawkins

Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.

— Plato

Astrology is an aesthetic affront. It cheapens astronomy, like using Beethoven for commercial jingles.

— Richard Dawkins

Astrology reveals the will of the gods.

— Juvenal

For astronomy is not only pleasant, but also very useful to be known: it cannot be denied that this art unfolds the admirable wisdom…

— John Calvin

“Astronomy is what we have now instead of theology. The terrors are less, but the comforts are nil’.”

— Brian Cox

Astronomy compel the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.

— Plato

I know nothing of the science of astrology and I consider it to be a science, if it is a science, of doubtful value,…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Astrology furnishes a splendid proof of the contemptible subjectivity of men. It refers the course of celestial bodies to the miserable ego: it establishes…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

The fact that astronomies change while the stars abide is a true analogy of every realm of human life and thought, religion not least…

— Harry Emerson Fosdick