Each has its own advantages and disadvantages, which you must weigh against your own interests and needs. Refractors are fairly portable and offer the finest image quality, but they're also the priciest per inch of aperture. They excel for detailed views of the Moon and planets, but aren't very well suited for deep-sky observation. They provide excellent performance on deep-sky clusters, nebulas, and galaxies.
Reflectors tend to be bulky, and require more maintenance than other telescopes.
They offer good, all-around optical prowess and are easily adapted for astrophotography. But even a 60mm refractor will reveal many breathtaking sights, including the rings of Saturn, Jupiter and its four largest moons, countless rills and craters on the Moon, the ghostly Orion Nebula, and the dazzling Double Cluster, to name a few. With bigger telescopes, you'll see fainter objects and finer details. Human eyesight is not capable of perceiving color at so faint a luminosity. You won't see images like those viewed in all the popular astronomy books with lots of color and detail, because these are time-lapsed photo's.