(266 quotes found)
“This is in a real sense the capstone of the initial missions to explore the planets. Pluto, its moons and this part of the solar system are such mysteries that New Horizons will rewrite all of the textbooks.”
Alan Stern
“I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.”
Jack London
“Our contortions, visible or secret, we communicate to the planet; already it trembles even as we do, it suffers the contagion of our crises and, as this grand mal spreads, it vomits us forth, cursing us the while.”
Emile M. Cioran
“Which would you rather have, a bursting planet or an earthquake here and there?”
John Joseph Lynch
“We might set up house on Mars but ... we do very little exploring the blue part of the planet. We have done so much skyward, I would like to see us spend more money and effort to explore below us.”
Sylvia Earle
“There are only two races on this planet -- the intelligent and the stupid.”
John Fowles
“This is the capstone of the missions to the planets that NASA has led since the 1960s.”
“It was cool to play an empowered woman, one of the most important persons on the planet.”
Carla Gugino
“You just became the most important person on the planet.”
“It's different from the inner rocky planets. It's different from the outer gaseous planets. And as such, it holds many clues as to how the solar system was formed.”
Andy Dantzler
