Astronomy Quote by Frank Drake

It now seems logical that all the stars, like our own sun, must have formed with a system of planets around them.

— Debra Fischer

The story seems to be that almost every star has a planetary system... and, also, the definition of 'habitable zone' has expanded. In our…

— Frank Drake

“Most star systems in the cosmos are binary (double-starred), which makes our solitary sun a slight oddity.”

— Bill Bryson

Now when we think that each of these stars is probably the centre of a solar system grander than our own, we cannot seriously…

— Percival Lowell

We are the laws of chemistry and physics as they have played out here on Earth, and we are now learning that planets are…

— Jill Tarter

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

— Debra Fischer

As our sensitivity improves, we are finally seeing planets with longer orbital periods, planetary systems that look more like our solar system.

— 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

Once you've got the makings of a star, gravity draws leftover gas and dust into a giant swirling disk. The dust continues to stick…

— 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

No star seemed less than what science has taught us that it is.

— James F. Cooper

The cosmic game changed forever in 1992. Before then, logic told us that there had to be other planets besides the nine (if you…

— Thomas Mallon