Alan Stern Quotes

A miniature poodle is not not a dog just because it's miniature.
A river is a river, independent of whether there are other rivers nearby. In science, we call things what they are based on their attributes, not what they're next to.
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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.
Are governments the only entities that can build human spacecraft? No - actually, every human spacecraft ever built for NASA was built by private industry.
As a planetary scientist, I don't know what else to call Pluto: It's big and round and thousands of miles wide.
As a researcher, I look forward to being able to do space science in a space environment.
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.
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.
Back before the Kuiper Belt was discovered, Pluto did look like a misfit that didn't belong with either the terrestrials or the giant planets.
By going to Pluto, we have a chance to anchor, with real data, models of the early evolution of Earth's atmosphere.
CASIS has to succeed because for it not to succeed would be a huge setback for the International Space Station program.
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.
CSF and its members believe strongly in the exploration of space of all kinds, including commercial purposes.
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.
During one of the Apollo missions, I saw Walter Cronkite showing off the flight plan. It just mesmerized me. All this detail! That's what I wanted.
Either data supports the observations or they don't. Voting doesn't work in science.
Even in our deep ocean, there are ecosystems at work with no light whatsoever down in the deepest portions of the oceanic abyss.
Every mission has life-or-death moments.
Going to the Kuiper Belt is like an archaeological dig into the history of the solar system.
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