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For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study.

Scientific man is already on the moon, and yet we are still living with the moral concepts of Homer.

The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons.

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.

I had studied at Harvard and MIT astronomy and a lot about the heavens and the star system and so forth.

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.

I am not a scientist. I have never analyzed the far reaches of the solar system through the lens of a telescope nor scrutinized cancer cells under a microscope.

The Sun, Moon and Stars are there to guide us.

This sight... is by far the noblest astronomy affords.

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.