Students of the heavens are separable into astronomers and astrologers as readily as are the minor domestic ruminants into sheep and goats, but the separation of philosophers into sages and cranks seems to be more sensitive to frames of reference.

W.V.O. Quine

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Quine, Willard Van Orman. Theories and Things. Harvard University Press, 1981, ch. 23.