"The calendar is intolerable to all wisdom, the horror of all astronomy, and a laughing stock from a mathematician's point of view."

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To most people, I fancy, the stars are beautiful; but if you asked why, they would be at a loss to reply, until they remembered what they had heard about astronomy, and the great size and distance and possible habitation of those orbs. ... [We] persuade ourselves that the power of the starry heavens lies in the suggestion of astronomical facts.

— George Santayana