The natural pattern of current astronomy is provided by the cryptic unity of nature itself (belief in which is the chief act of faith of the scientist).
Nigel Calder
Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.
Rebecca West
Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.
Plato
Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy: the mad daughter of a wise mother.
Voltaire
For astronomy is not only pleasant, but also very useful to be known: it cannot be denied that this art unfolds the admirable wisdom of God.
John Calvin
The body is a device to calculate the astronomy of the spirit.
Mevlana Rumi
Astronomy has revealed the great truth that the whole universe is bound together by one all-pervading influence.
William Leitch
Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let no one expect anything of certainty from astronomy, lest if anyone take as true that which has been constructed for another use, he go away...bigger fool than when he came to it.
Copernicus
Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy; the mad daughter of a wise mother.
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
Scientific truth is too beautiful to be sacrificed for the sake of light entertainment or money. Astrology is an aesthetic affront. It cheapens astronomy, like using Beethoven for commercial jingles.
Richard Dawkins
Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology
Rebecca West