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| 8 Strange Quotes From Alan Sterne |
Going to the Kuiper Belt is like an archaeological dig into the history of the solar system.
— Alan Stern
To say that what a planet is doesn't matter would be to imply that a planetary scientist couldn't explain to someone what the field is about.
— Alan Stern
I expect New Horizons will see more that Hubble cannot see.
— Alan Stern
I think if you were between maybe 6 and 16, there was nothing like Apollo, and I wonder if there can be something like that again. We'll just have to see.
— Alan Stern
Whether there's even an ocean on Pluto deep inside is a question I hope New Horizons can address in indirect ways.
— Alan Stern
I tend to think of Pluto and its moons as presents sitting under a Christmas tree. They're wrapped, and from Earth all we can do is look at the boxes to see whether they're light or heavy, to see if something maybe jiggles a bit inside. We're seeing intriguing things, but we really don't know what's in there.
— Alan Stern
People dig exploration.
— Alan Stern
People ask, 'What are the scientific questions you're going to answer?' New Horizons doesn't have any of those; it's purely about raw exploration... We're not 'rewriting the textbook' - we're writing the textbook from scratch.
— Alan Stern
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