Alan Stern 18 Amazing Quotes

Alan Stern 18 Amazing Quotese

It says something very deep about humans and our society, something very good about us, that we've invested our time and treasure in building a machine that can fly across three billion miles of space to explore the Pluto system.

— Alan Stern

CASIS has to succeed because for it not to succeed would be a huge setback for the International Space Station program.

— Alan Stern

In science, we take large numbers of disparate facts and reduce them to see patterns. We use the patterns to reduce the amount of information. It's the reason we name species and genera and families in biology. It's also the reason we have names for certain types of geological features and so on in other fields.

— Alan Stern

Pluto and its brethren are the most populous class of planets in our solar system.

— Alan Stern

Pluto is as far across as Manhattan to Miami, but its atmosphere is bigger than the Earth's.

— Alan Stern

It's very hard to motivate yourself and others with only one goal - particularly if it's complex and you might not get there until years down the road. That's why intermediate goals are so important.

— Alan Stern

Just speaking for myself, I think the return of people to the Moon has a lot to offer for understanding the formation and evolution of terrestrial worlds; so would the exploration of near-Earth asteroids by people.

— Alan Stern

Pluto has strong atmospheric cycles: it snows on the surface; the snows sublimate and go back into the atmosphere each 248 year orbit.

— Alan Stern

I actually started my career in planetary science with a master's thesis on Pluto.

— Alan Stern

If you put Earth out beyond Neptune, you wouldn't be able to call it a planet because it couldn't clear its zone.

— Alan Stern

I tell public audiences, don't go to a podiatrist for brain surgery; don't go to an astronomer for planetary science.

— Alan Stern

The Pluto system is much more complex than I had expected.

— Alan Stern

I like the planets because they are real places that you can go to and send machines to. Faraway astronomy - galactic astronomy and extra-galactic astronomy - is really cool stuff, but to me, it's about destinations.

— Alan Stern

It shouldn't be so difficult to determine what a planet is. When you're watching a science fiction show like 'Star Trek' and they show up at some object in space and turn on the viewfinder, the audience and the people in the show know immediately whether it's a planet or a star or a comet or an asteroid.

— Alan Stern

At the time of Apollo 11, I was a grade-schooler, and I remember every time an Apollo mission would take place that, like a lot of little boys, I'd gather in front of the TV for hours and hours and hours with my little brother.

— Alan Stern

It's interesting - Pluto's almost a brand unto itself. It's the farthest. It's the most diminutive of the classical planets. It's been maligned by astronomers. It's always the one with all the question marks in the back of the textbook in the table. I think children identify with it because it's smaller, kind of cute.

— Alan Stern

Human beings have long wondered whether they are alone in the universe.

— Alan Stern

There are lots of really interesting little planets out there in the Kuiper Belt, but Pluto's the only one that's got all the cool attributes.

— Alan Stern

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