Scientist Quotes

How can an adjective in front of a noun not describe the noun? There are dwarf stars, but they're still considered stars.
Human beings have long wondered whether they are alone in the universe.
I actually started my career in planetary science with a master's thesis on Pluto.
I call Pluto the harbinger.
I can't imagine how many kids around the world will look at pictures of Pluto and think, 'I want to grow up to be a scientist.'
I expect New Horizons will see more that Hubble cannot see.
I just think it's patently absurd for scientists to categorize objects on the basis of the numbers of objects that they can remember.
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.
I tell public audiences, don't go to a podiatrist for brain surgery; don't go to an astronomer for planetary science.
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.
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.
I think that one of the things that will come out of the New Horizons mission is that the public will take a look, and they won't know what else to call Pluto but a planet - and a pretty exciting one.
I think when people see Pluto revealed by New Horizons, its satellite system, its complex surface, its atmosphere, I think they'll have a hard time saying 'That's not a planet' because it obviously will be, and I think most people are already coming to that opinion anyway, but I think that's really going to drive it home viscerally.
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.
I'm the one who originally coined the term 'dwarf planet,' back in the nineteen-nineties.
I've been on 26 space missions; they range from suborbital to orbital to shuttle experiments to planetary missions.
If the Pluto mission was a cat, then it would've been dead long ago because they only get nine lives, and we've had significantly more than nine stoppages and odd twists and turns.
If two billion people wanted to watch a robot fly by Pluto, imagine what it will be like when the first humans step on Mars. It'll be the most unifying event anybody could ever put on.
If you go to planetary science meetings and hear technical talks on Pluto, you will hear experts calling it a planet every day.
If you put Earth out beyond Neptune, you wouldn't be able to call it a planet because it couldn't clear its zone.
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