Astronomers Quote by Murray Gell-Mann

In 1999, my team discovered that the star Upsilon Andromedae was circled by three gas-giant planets - the first distant multiplanet system ever found.…

— Debra Fischer

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

— 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

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

— Bill Bryson

One of the implications of the discovery of the Kuiper Belt and its many small planets is that many scientists now think of the…

— Alan Stern

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

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

We affect one another quite enough merely by existing. Whenever the stars cross, or is it comets? fragments pass briefly from one orbit to…

— Gore Vidal

A lot of work and money has been spent on astronomy and yet we have not found life. So we are rare, and rare…

— John Gummer

“i will forever be colliding with a billion unnamed undiscovered stars, each of us on our own orbital paths.”

— Sanober Khan

Once upon a time, in some out of the way corner of that universe which is dispersed into numberless twinkling solar systems, there was…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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