Alan Stern Quotes

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 only watch National Geographic Channel, and also I have the app on my phone. I'm into astronomy and love to learn about new facts.

One of the things I do know is we know very little about our universe. Even though we think we know a lot, and we do know a lot more than we used to, we have a lot to learn about our universe.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.

Space is really domain expansion.

The public has an incredible capacity for appreciating the wonder of our planet, our solar system, our universe.

We're just one rock surrounded by this immense universe.

I am very interested in the Universe - I am specialising in the Universe and all that surrounds it.

I'm an avid watcher of the Nat Geo channel, where I watch shows about how the planets are formed, and shows about moons, quasars, black holes.

To primitive man, the sky was wonderful, mysterious and awesome, but he could not even dream of what was within the golden disk or silver points of light so far beyond his reach.

You cannot look up at the night sky on the Planet Earth and not wonder what it's like to be up there amongst the stars. And I always look up at the moon and see it as the single most romantic place within the cosmos.

I'm obsessed with the moon and space travel, so if I could incorporate that, I'd love to go to space.

In future, children won't perceive the stars as mere twinkling points of light: they'll learn that each is a 'Sun', orbited by planets fully as interesting as those in our Solar system.

So I saw many planets, and they looked just a little bit brighter than they do from Earth.

Mankind is led into the darkness beyond our world by the inspiration of discovery and the longing to understand. Our journey into space will go on.

We do have, and will continue to have an unquenchable curiosity to understand our Solar System.

When we explore other planets, we learn a lot about our own.

I can't say I've ever had a dream about space or that I ponder it all the time.

I'm interested in the cosmos. I want to know what's out there and how connected we are.

I can remember at the age of about six being fascinated by the planets and learning all about Mars and Venus and things.

You see billions and billions of stars and recognize that you know some of those have planets, too, and maybe there's life out there, and this is just one of billions of galaxies... and so it gives you this huge perspective of how far we potentially have to go for real exploration.

I would love to set foot on another planet - lunar or Mars or somewhere.

I'm not really into sci-fi movies, but I'm into the science of space a lot. I love astronomy and thinking about the nothingness of the everythingness of space.

It shouldn't be so difficult to determine what a planet is. When you're watching a science fiction show like 'Star Trek' and they show up at some object in space and turn on the viewfinder, the audience and the people in the show know immediately whether it's a planet or a star or a comet or an asteroid.

We are discovering what the universe is really like, and it is totally magnificent, and one can only be inspired and awestruck by what we find.