History Quote by Alan Stern

There is enough material in the Kuiper Belt to build anything out there. We could gobble up all the little asteroids, filtering out all…

— Alastair Reynolds

The Kuiper Belt is the largest mapped structure in our planetary system, three times as big as all the territory from the sun out…

— Alan Stern

Back before the Kuiper Belt was discovered, Pluto did look like a misfit that didn't belong with either the terrestrials or the giant planets.

— 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…

— Alan Stern

There are lots of really interesting little planets out there in the Kuiper Belt, but Pluto's the only one that's got all the cool…

— Alan Stern

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

“That place, called the heliopause, is one definition of the outer boundary of the Empire of the Sun. But the Voyager spacecraft will plunge…

— Carl Sagan

Like buried treasures, the outposts of the universe have beckoned to the adventurous from immemorial times...

— George Ellery Hale

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

— Stephen Hawking

With every throb of the climatic pulse which we have felt in Central Asia,, the centre of civilisation has moved this way and that.…

— Ellsworth Huntington

“Pluto was part of their mental landscape, the one they had constructed to organize their thinking about the solar system and their own place…

— Mike Brown

I saw the Vietnam Veterans Memorial not as an object placed into the earth but as a cut in the earth that has then…

— Maya Lin