Definition of Astrology

Astrology

In its etymological signification, the science of the stars; among the ancients, synonymous with astronomy; subsequently, the art of judging of the influences of the stars upon human affairs, and of foretelling events by their position and aspects.

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Astrology Quotations

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.
Voltaire

We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.
Carl Jung

About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm.
Kurt Vonnegut

You know, I designed the Queen crest. I simply combined all the creatures that represent our star signs-and I don't even believe in astrology.
Freddie Mercury

I don't believe in astrology. The only stars I can blame for my failures are those that walk about the stage.
Noel Coward

The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.
John Kenneth Galbraith

I don't believe in astrology; I'm a Sagittarius and we're skeptical.
Arthur C. Clarke

A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.
Hippocrates

Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.
Rebecca West

If one were to bring ten of the wisest men in the world together and ask them what was the most stupid thing in existence, they would not be able to discover anything so stupid as astrology.
David Hilbert

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

Human knowledge is dark and uncertain; philosophy is dark, astrology is dark, and geometry is dark.
John Jewel

Whether the ice caps melt, or expand - whatever happens - the anthropogenic global warming theorists claim it confirms their theory. A perfect example of a pseudo-science like astrology.
Frank Tipler

I'm interested in astrology and astronomy.
Emm Gryner

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Astrology Translations

astrology in French is astrologie
astrology in German is Sterndeuterei {f}, Astrologie {f}
astrology in Swedish is astrologi

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