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astronomy

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Astrology.

The science which treats of the celestial bodies, of their magnitudes, motions, distances, periods of revolution, eclipses, constitution, physical condition, and of the causes of their various phenomena.

A treatise on, or text-book of, the science.

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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. These daughters have too long dominated the earth. Voltaire

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 Alfvén

Astronomy teaches the correct use of the sun and the planets. Stephen Leacock

Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes. Edsger W. Dijkstra

Philosophy begins where religion ends, just as by analogy chemistry begins where alchemy runs out, and astronomy takes the place of astrology. Christopher Hitchens

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