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

Astrology had an important role in the ancient world. You can't understand many things unless you know something about astrology - the plays of Shakespeare and so on.

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

Until very recently, the heavenly bodies have been investigated only with reference to their position and their laws of motion, and a quarter of a century ago astronomy was little more than celestial topography.

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

It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other.

I am an astronomer, and my job is to look to the heavens to better understand the universe and our place in it.

Note to academics: Aristarchus' track record of astronomical research would probably have guaranteed him tenure somewhere, if tenure had been invented. His stack of reprints included measuring the distances of the Moon and Sun.

The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons.

The way that I see astrology is as a repository of thought and psychology. A system we've created as a culture as way to make things mean things.