Evolution Quote by Debra Fischer

The mission of NASA's Kepler telescope is to lift the scales from our eyes and reveal to us just how typical our home world…

— Seth Shostak

This plucky NASA telescope is able to find planets en masse. If you compare planet hunting to prospecting for gold, then Kepler is equivalent…

— Seth Shostak

There's no doubt that the search for planets is motivated by the search for life. Humans are interested in whether or not life evolves…

— Debra Fischer

In the four years since its launch, Kepler has chalked up 122 new and confirmed planets. It's also caught the scent of nearly three…

— Seth Shostak

You see billions and billions of stars and recognize that you know some of those have planets, too, and maybe there's life out there,…

— Peggy Whitson

Ultimately, what we're looking for in the long run is to find other Earth-like planets.

— Debra Fischer

We search for life on others planets and in other regions of our galaxy. Meanwhile we destroy and ignore the other life on this…

— Anthony D. Williams

So many galaxies, so many planets out there in the universe circling so many stars... it just feels like there's a very good chance…

— Brian Greene

Because of Hubble and other telescopes, we've now discovered that there are probably planets around every star, or virtually every star. There are solar…

— John M. Grunsfeld

The discovery and investigation of life on other planets is likely to change many of our ideas about how life arose on the Earth…

— George Smoot

Kepler's blown the lid off everything we know about extra-solar planets.

— Debra Fischer

Discovering that our solar system has many more planets than we ever expected, and that most of them are ice dwarfs rather than like…

— Alan Stern