Alan Stern 18 Dope Quotes

Alan Stern 18 Dope Quotese

How can an adjective in front of a noun not describe the noun? There are dwarf stars, but they're still considered stars.

— Alan Stern

Discovering that our solar system has many more planets than we ever expected, and that most of them are ice dwarfs rather than like Earth and the other rocky terrestrials, is just another step in the revolution in viewpoint that removed the Earth from the center of the physical universe and makes Earth all the more special.

— Alan Stern

That so many binary or quasi-binary KBOs exist came as a real surprise to the research community.

— Alan Stern

As a scientist in charge of space sensors and entire space missions before I was at NASA, I myself was involved in projects that overran. But that's no excuse for remaining silent about this growing problem or failing to champion reform.

— Alan Stern

I'm hopeful that commercial space exploration will takeoff. To really fuel the spaceflight revolution will require an investment of hundreds of billions of dollars a year, and I think that's only going to happen in the commercial sector - if there are large profits to be made.

— Alan Stern

Pluto is the new Mars.

— Alan Stern

America's space program has been the envy and inspiration of the world. It has made landmark scientific discoveries that are a lasting legacy of this nation's greatness. It has studied Earth in ways no other nation can match.

— Alan Stern

Science is really about individual experts reaching a consensus.

— Alan Stern

Most of the oceans in the Solar System are deep beneath ice shelves.

— Alan Stern

A miniature poodle is not not a dog just because it's miniature.

— Alan Stern

Competition-driven innovation and price pressure that commercial practices foster can only make human spaceflight ever more common and U.S. leadership in this domain ever clearer.

— Alan Stern

In the mind of the public, the word 'planet' carries a significance lacking in other words used to describe planetary bodies... many members of the public assume that alleged 'non-planets' cease to be interesting enough to warrant scientific exploration.

— Alan Stern

Having a diverse suite of U.S.-manned spaceflight systems to access space is inherently robust.

— Alan Stern

No one working as an astronomer is shackled in chains. This is a tremendous profession. There are lots of neat people, and you get to do cool things. If I had to say something negative, it's that there's often a whole lot of travel that takes me away from my children. That can be a bummer a lot of times.

— Alan Stern

Typically in science, individual scientists make up their minds about scientific fact or theory one at a time. We don't take votes. We just don't vote on quantum mechanics, the theory of relativity, why the sky is blue, or anything else.

— Alan Stern

If you go to planetary science meetings and hear technical talks on Pluto, you will hear experts calling it a planet every day.

— Alan Stern

Why would you listen to an astronomer about a planet?

— Alan Stern

The New Horizons Pluto mission will be the first mission to a binary object and will help us understand everything from the origin of Earth's moon to the physics of mass transfer between binary stars.

— Alan Stern

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