Quotations on Astrology

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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
(Keywords: People, Astrology, Astronomy, Land, Today, Universe)

If one were to bring ten of the wisest men in the world together and ask them what was the most stupid thing in existence, they would not be able to discover anything so stupid as astrology.
- David Hilbert
(Keywords: Men, Astrology, Existence, World)

A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.
- Hippocrates
(Keywords: Knowledge, Astrology, Right)

Human knowledge is dark and uncertain; philosophy is dark, astrology is dark, and geometry is dark.
- John Jewel
(Keywords: Knowledge, Astrology, Geometry, Philosophy)

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
(Keywords: Religion, Mother, Daughter, Astrology, Astronomy, Daughters, Earth, Superstition)

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
(Keywords: Birthday, People, Astrology, Communism, Possibilities)

Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.
- Rebecca West
(Keywords: Science, War, Astrology, Astronomy, Military)