Chance Quote by Alan Stern

We explore because we are human and we want to know. I hope that Pluto will help us on that journey.

— Stephen Hawking

Pluto has a very interesting history, and there is a lot of work that we need to do to understand this very complicated place.

— Alan Stern

We were very surprised to find out that Pluto is still geologically alive. It has upended our ideas of how planetary geophysics works.

— Alan Stern

We're here to help you to find Pluto.

— Daisy Duck

Well, Pluto, here we are. Now for a swell vacation.

— Mickey Mouse

Pluto is showing us a diversity of landforms and complexity of processes that rival anything we've seen in the solar system.

— Alan Stern

Why did we do that to Pluto? We had it good with Pluto.

— Dave Eggers

You could not have predicted the amazing discoveries at Pluto, even though we have been to a couple of objects in the solar system…

— Alan Stern

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…

— Alan Stern

If you slid Pluto to where Earth is right now, heat from the sun would evaporate that ice, and it would grow a tail.…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Hey, just be grateful I’m old. When an Arcadian first starts time-walking, we only have about a three percent chance of success. I once…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

Pluto has strong atmospheric cycles: it snows on the surface; the snows sublimate and go back into the atmosphere each 248 year orbit.

— Alan Stern