Quotes by : Alan Stern

Of course Pluto is a planet: It's massive enough to have its shape controlled by gravity rather than....

I like the planets because they are real places that you can go to and send machines to. Faraway astronomy....

I tend to think of Pluto and its moons as presents sitting under a Christmas tree. They're wrapped, and....

No one working as an astronomer is shackled in chains. This is a tremendous profession. There are lots....

Competition-driven innovation and price pressure that commercial practices foster can only make human....

Pluto is still active four and a half billion years into its history. It was expected that small planets....

A river is a river, independent of whether there are other rivers nearby. In science, we call things....

It says something very deep about humans and our society, something very good about us, that we've invested....

We're in the space exploration business, and the outer solar system is a wild, wooly place. We haven't....

The big lesson of planetary science is when you do a first reconnaissance of a new kind of object, you....