#astrology

Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy. ↗

— Hannes Alfven

#astrology #astronomy #believe #every #few

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth. ↗

— Voltaire

#astronomy #daughter #daughters #dominated #earth

About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#about #almost #astrology #because #best

I'm interested in astrology and astronomy. ↗

— Emm Gryner

#astronomy #i #interested

A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician. ↗

— Hippocrates

#call #himself #knowledge #physician #right

I don't believe in astrology; I'm a Sagittarius and we're skeptical. ↗

— Arthur C. Clarke

#believe #i #skeptical

The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#economic #forecasting #function #look #make

You know, I designed the Queen crest. I simply combined all the creatures that represent our star signs-and I don't even believe in astrology. ↗

— Freddie Mercury

#believe #combined #creatures #crest #designed

Whether the ice caps melt, or expand - whatever happens - the anthropogenic global warming theorists claim it confirms their theory. A perfect example of a pseudo-science like astrology. ↗

— Frank Tipler

#caps #claim #confirms #example #expand

The Nazis, he had written in his latest, "are wedded to a sort of aesthetico-moral fallacy, which is that if a man has blond hair, blue eyes and strong features, then he will also be brave, loyal, intelligent and so on. They truly believe that goodness has some causal relationship with beauty. Which is idiotic, yes, but no more idiotic than you are, Egon. When you see a girl like Adele Hitler with an innocent, pretty face, can you honestly tell me you don't assume she must be an angelic person? Even though it makes about as much sense as astrology. ↗

— Ned Beauman

#beauty #nazis #beauty