Alan Stern famous quotes

It used to be said that Pluto is a misfit. But now we know Earth is the misfit. This is the most populous class of planet in our solar system and we have never sent a mission to this class.
-- Alan Stern

#Class #Earth #Pluto

It's strictly coincidental that Pluto of course was named for the god of the underworld and we're describing these Halloween moons
-- Alan Stern

#Halloween #Moon #Pluto

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

#Real #Moon #Horizon

It'll be the fastest spacecraft ever to Jupiter...13 months after launch. We pass the Moon in just nine hours.
-- Alan Stern

#Moon #Jupiter #Nine

We're just learning that a lot of planets are small planets, and we didn't know that before, fact is, in planetary science, objects such as Pluto and the other dwarf planets in the Kuiper Belt are considered planets and called planets in everyday discourse in scientific meetings.
-- Alan Stern

#Science #Dwarves #Everyday

Naming celestial objects is usually done by astronomers and professionals. Other people who are interested in space never get the opportunity to do that kind of thing.
-- Alan Stern

#Opportunity #Space #People

In the 18th century, James Hargreaves invented the Spinning Jenny, and Richard Arkwright pioneered the water-propelled spinning frame which led to the mass production of cotton. This was truly revolutionary. The cotton manufacturers created a whole new class of people - the urban proletariat. The structure of society itself would never be the same.

Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within. Freedom is never granted; it is won. Justice is never given; it is exacted.

When I was right out of college, I felt competitive with some of the guys in my class over career stuff.

As the Internet breaks down the last justifications for a professional class of politicians, it also builds up the tools for replacing them.

I think the success of democracy is not really police security; it's the presence of a broad middle class. The stronger the middle class of a people is, the less you have to worry about one group coming in and exploiting the democratic process for its own ends.

I taught a lot of art history, especially Chinese, Japanese, and Indian. But the painting classes came back. The nudes came back. Not so much the still lifes. So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.

If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions.

O my people, I disavow all that you associate [with God]. I orient my face with an exclusive orientation towards Him, who created the heavens and the earth and I am not one of the associators.

I’m not afraid of anything that might happen to me on this earth, because I know no matter what, nothing can take my spirit from me.

Pluto is not a planet, but I am.