Astronomy Quote by Debra Fischer

The first exoplanet to be found around a sun-like star was discovered in 1995, just two years before I began studying exoplanet detection.

— Debra Fischer

Before 1995, the only planets we knew about were the planets in our solar system.

— Debra Fischer

You know, there was a time, just before I started to study physical science, when astronomers thought that systems such as we have here…

— Murray Gell-Mann

The discovery in 1846 of the planet Neptune was a dramatic and spectacular achievement of mathematical astronomy. The very existence of this new member…

— James R Newman

When I grew up as a kid, we didn't know there were any other planets outside of our own solar system. It was widely…

— John M. Grunsfeld

I therefore concluded, and decided unhesitatingly, that there are three stars in the heavens moving about Jupiter, as Venus and Mercury about the Sun;…

— Galileo Galilei

One of the first thoughts I had, when doing early exoplanet research, was that Earth and its many companions seemed very different from the…

— Debra Fischer

A 'serious' scientist in 1992 or 1993 had to admit the possibility that planets were really rare, that most stars might not have planets.…

— Debra Fischer

“I have looked further into space than ever human being did before me. I have observed stars of which the light, it can be…

— William Herschel

That is a big question we all have: are we alone in the universe? And exoplanets confirm the suspicion that planets are not rare.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

For many centuries, humans have speculated that there might be planetary systems around other stars and that there could be extraterrestrial life there and…

— George Smoot

The bottom line is that finding orphan planets - small, faint, and located who-knows-where - is not for the faint of heart. The task…

— Seth Shostak