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... a bigger fool than when he came to it.
View quotes by Nicolas CopernicusIf the Lord Almighty had consulted me before embarking on the Creation, I should have recommended something simpler (on the Ptolemaic system of
astronomy)
View quotes by Alfonso XNothing can be more destructive to ambition, and the passion for conquest, than the true system of
astronomy. What a poor thing is even the whole globe in comparison of the infinite extent of nature!
View quotes by Bernard FontenelleScientific 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
View quotes by Richard DawkinsTo command the professors of
astronomy to confute their own observations is to enjoin an impossibility, for it is to command them not to see what they do see, and not to understand what they do understand, and to find what they do not discover.
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