Astronomy Quote by Jill Tarter

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

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

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

— Debra Fischer

There may be hundreds of small seed planets - or planetesimals - which grow in the disk of matter around a star.

— Debra Fischer

Planets were very large places, on any scale but that of the spaces in between them.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

We're just learning that a lot of planets are small planets, and we didn't know that before, fact is, in planetary science, objects such…

— Alan Stern

Young man, I am afraid you are wasting your time. If there were any more planets they would have been found long before this.

— Clyde Tombaugh

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

— Debra Fischer

The gas-giant planets in our solar system all have large moons.

— Debra Fischer

It now appears that essentially every star has a planetary system. In the very beginning, we thought at best half.

— Frank Drake

Jupiter was very large and bright. Apparently, there was a small reddish star appended to its side. This is called "an alliance."

— Gan De

There might have been a hundred or a thousand life-bearing planets, had the course of evolution of the universe been a little different, or…

— Alfred Russel Wallace