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Astrology is an aesthetic affront. It cheapens astronomy, like using Beethoven for commercial jingles.

Richard Dawkins

At night astronomers agree.

Matthew Prior

Astronomy, as nothing else can do, teaches men humility.

Arthur C. Clarke

Astronomers, like burglars and jazz musicians, operate best at night.

Miles Kington, Welcome to Kington, 1989

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

Stephen Leacock

It does at first appear that an astronomer rapt in abstraction, while he gazes on a star, must feel more exquisite than a farmer who in conducting his team.

Isaac D’Israeli

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

Astronomy’s much more fun when you’re not an astronomer.

Brian May

Certainly the history of astronomy shows that every time we thought we were special, we were wrong.

Seth Shostak