Franz Cumont quotes
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“After a duration of a thousand years, the power of astrology broke down when, with Copernicus, Kepler, and Galileo, the progress of astronomy overthrew the false hypothesis upon which the entire structure rested, namely the geocentric system of the universe. The fact that the earth revolves in space intervened to upset the complicated play of planetary influences, and the silent stars, related to the unfathomable depths of the sky, no longer made their prophetic voices audible to mankind. Celestial mechanics and spectrum analysis finally robbed them of their mysterious prestige.”
-- Franz CumontSource : "Astrology and Religion".
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“True science is at length disencumbered of the empirical determinations which had accumulated in the course of many centuries.”
-- Franz CumontSource : Franz Cumont (2013). “Astrology and Religion”, p.13, Lulu Press, Inc
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“We are all made from star dust and we will all return to star dust, like a cosmic palindrome.”
Source : A. S. King (2014). “Glory O'Brien's History of the Future”, p.80, Hachette UK
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Source : Abraham Coles (1880). “The microcosm, and other poems”
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“You stars that reigned at my nativity, whose influence hath allotted death and hell.”
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Source : Ada Louise Huxtable (1986). “ARCHITECTURE, ANYONE?”, Random House
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