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

I'm interested in astrology and astronomy.

I'm interested in astrology and astronomy.

In very different ways, the possibility that the universe is teeming with life, and the opposite possibility that we are totally alone, are equally exciting. Either way, the urge to know more about the universe seems to me irresistible, and I cannot imagine that anybody of truly poetic sensibility could disagree.

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

We should take astrology seriously. No, I don't mean we should believe in it. I am talking about fighting it seriously instead of humouring it as a piece of harmless fun.