“Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
“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.”
Source: Dean of the Plasma Dissidents (1988), p. 196.
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