"La superstition est à la religion ce que l'astrologie est à l'astronomie, la fille très folle d'une mère très sage. Ces deux filles ont longtemps subjugué toute la terre."
— Voltaire

January 1, 1970

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Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy, the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth. — "Whether it is useful to maintain the people in superstition," Treatise on Toleration (1763)