Career Quote by Alan Stern

My field is called planetary science.

— Alan Stern

I've been studying the planets and learning the personalities of each planet.

— Dr. Dre

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

I loved Pluto. I was totally fascinated by Pluto. When I started in astronomy, I started looking at this region of the sky because…

— Mike Brown

I got into science fiction by being interested in astronomy first.

— Terry Pratchett

Pluto is not a planet, but I am.

— Shaquille O'Neal

I do a lot of work with NASA and am involved in research projects studying planetary evolution, Earth-like planets, and potential conditions for life…

— David Grinspoon

I had studied at Harvard and MIT astronomy and a lot about the heavens and the star system and so forth.

— Edgar Mitchell

My odyssey to become an astronaut kind of started in grad school, and I was working, up at MIT, in space robotics-related work; human…

— Michael J. Massimino

I got into astronomy through an interest in religion.

— Carolyn Porco

I'm the one who originally coined the term 'dwarf planet,' back in the nineteen-nineties.

— Alan Stern

When I was a young man in school, I used to read science fiction and really liked it. And as I became a young…

— Douglas Trumbull