"Students of the heavens are separable into astronomers……" — Willard Van Orman Quine
"Students of the heavens are separable into astronomers and astrologers as readily as the minor domestic ruminants into sheep and goats, but the separation of philosophers into sages and cranks seems to be more sensitive to frames of reference."
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28 Quotes by Willard Van Orman Quine
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To be is to be the value of a variable.
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Physics investigates the essential nature of the world, and biology describes a local bump. Psychology, human psychology, describes a bump…
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Science is not a substitute for common sense, but an extension of it.
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Life is agid, life is fulgid. Life is what the least of us make most of us feel the least…
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It is one of the consolations of philosophy that the benefit of showing how to dispense with a concept does…
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Yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation
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Logic is an old subject, and since 1879 it has been a great one.
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Confusion of sign and object is original sin coeval with the word.
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No two of us learn our language alike, nor, in a sense, does any finish learning it while he lives.
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Creatures inveterately wrong in their inductions have a pathetic but praise-worthy tendency to die before reproducing their kind.
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Just as the introduction of the irrational numbers ... is a convenient myth [which] simplifies the laws of arithmetic ...…
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For me the problem of induction is a problem about the world: a problem of how we, as we are…
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More Astrologers Quotes
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It may be that the old astrologers had the truth exactly reversed, when they believed that the stars controlled the…
— Arthur C. Clarke
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In childhood our credulity serves us well. It helps us to pack, with extraordinary rapidity, our skulls full of the…
— Richard Dawkins
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Millionaires don't have astrologers, billionaires do.
— J. P. Morgan
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Astrologers that future fates foreshow.
— Alexander Pope
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I’d compare stock pickers to astrologers but I don’t want to bad mouth astrologers.
— Eugene Fama
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Astrologers were greatly impressed, and misled, by what they believed to be confirming evidence-so much so that they were quite…
— Karl Popper
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Because love is dangerous, insecure.... And nobody knows where love will lead. It is just like a cloud - moving…
— Rajneesh
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Every Hindu knows that astrologers try to fix the caste of every boy or girl as soon as he or…
— Swami Vivekananda
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I have seen some astrologers who predicted wonderful things; but I have no reason to believe they predicted them only…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Do you believe then that the sciences would ever have arisen and become great if there had not before hand…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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These auspicious aspects, which the astrologers subsequently interpreted for me, may have been the causes of my preservation.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The collective unconscious appears to consist of mythological motifs or primordial images, for which reason the myths of all nations…
— Carl Jung
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