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title: "3 Astronomer Quotes By Alan Stern"
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> [Why would you listen to an astronomer about a planet?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-stern/why-would-you-listen-to-an-astronomer-about-a-planet/)

[Alan Stern](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-stern/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d02/alan-stern-5283_about_why-would-you-listen-to-an-astronomer-ab_267938.png)

> [No one working as an astronomer is shackled in chains. This is a tremendous profession. There are lots of neat people, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-stern/no-one-working-as-an-astronomer-is-shackled-in-chains-this-is-a/)

[Alan Stern](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-stern/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4ea/alan-stern-5283_astronomer_no-one-working-as-an-astronomer-is-shack_2861155.png)

> [I tell public audiences, don't go to a podiatrist for brain surgery; don't go to an astronomer for planetary science.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-stern/i-tell-public-audiences-don-t-go-to-a-podiatrist-for-brain-surgery/)

[Alan Stern](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-stern/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7a5/alan-stern-5283_astronomer_i-tell-public-audiences-don-t-go-to-a-po_2966942.png)

## Other authors on Astronomer

- [Steven Magee 25 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/astronomer/steven-magee/)

## More by Alan Stern

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-stern/competition-driven-innovation-and-price-pressure-that-commercial/)

[Alan Stern](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-stern/)

> [Of course Pluto is a planet: It's massive enough to have its shape controlled by gravity rather than material strength, which is the hallmark…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-stern/of-course-pluto-is-a-planet-it-s-massive-enough-to-have-its-shape/)

[Alan Stern](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-stern/)

> [It used to be said that Pluto is a misfit. But now we know Earth is the misfit. This is the most populous class…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-stern/it-used-to-be-said-that-pluto-is-a-misfit-but-now-we-know-earth-is/)

[Alan Stern](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-stern/)

> [The Kuiper belt region, which I call the third zone because it lies beyond the rocky terrestrial planets and beyond the giant planets, is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-stern/the-kuiper-belt-region-which-i-call-the-third-zone-because-it-lies/)

[Alan Stern](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-stern/)

> [I think if you were between maybe 6 and 16, there was nothing like Apollo, and I wonder if there can be something like…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-stern/i-think-if-you-were-between-maybe-6-and-16-there-was-nothing-like/)

[Alan Stern](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-stern/)

> [If you put Earth out beyond Neptune, you wouldn't be able to call it a planet because it couldn't clear its zone.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-stern/if-you-put-earth-out-beyond-neptune-you-wouldn-t-be-able-to-call-it-a/)

[Alan Stern](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-stern/)

> [Why would you listen to an astronomer about a planet?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-stern/why-would-you-listen-to-an-astronomer-about-a-planet/)

[Alan Stern](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-stern/)

> [When we first sent missions to Jupiter, no one expected to find moons that would have active volcanoes. And I could go down a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-stern/when-we-first-sent-missions-to-jupiter-no-one-expected-to-find-moons/)

[Alan Stern](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-stern/)

> [Pluto is still active four and a half billion years into its history. It was expected that small planets like Pluto would cool off…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-stern/pluto-is-still-active-four-and-a-half-billion-years-into-its-history/)

[Alan Stern](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-stern/)

> [The Kuiper Belt is the largest mapped structure in our planetary system, three times as big as all the territory from the sun out…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-stern/the-kuiper-belt-is-the-largest-mapped-structure-in-our-planetary/)

[Alan Stern](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-stern/)

> [If two billion people wanted to watch a robot fly by Pluto, imagine what it will be like when the first humans step on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-stern/if-two-billion-people-wanted-to-watch-a-robot-fly-by-pluto-imagine/)

[Alan Stern](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-stern/)

> [To keep everyone invested in your vision, you have to back up a little bit and really analyze who the different stakeholders are and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-stern/to-keep-everyone-invested-in-your-vision-you-have-to-back-up-a-little/)

[Alan Stern](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-stern/)

> [We're going to find Marses and maybe Earths out in the solar system's attic of the Oort Cloud and the Kuiper Belt.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-stern/we-re-going-to-find-marses-and-maybe-earths-out-in-the-solar-system-s/)

[Alan Stern](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-stern/)

> [One of the implications of the discovery of the Kuiper Belt and its many small planets is that many scientists now think of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-stern/one-of-the-implications-of-the-discovery-of-the-kuiper-belt-and-its/)

[Alan Stern](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-stern/)

> [CASIS has to succeed because for it not to succeed would be a huge setback for the International Space Station program.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-stern/casis-has-to-succeed-because-for-it-not-to-succeed-would-be-a-huge/)

[Alan Stern](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-stern/)

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