Born Quote by Neil deGrasse Tyson

When I was a kid, I was obsessed with different planets in the solar system, and I used to create, for every single planet,…

— James Gunn

I like the planets because they are real places that you can go to and send machines to. Faraway astronomy - galactic astronomy and…

— Alan Stern

I had rather be Mercury, the smallest among seven [planets], revolving round the sun, than the first among five [moons] revolving round Saturn.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The first inspiration I ever had was the cosmos, the planetary system.

— Alexander Calder

I loved Pluto. I was totally fascinated by Pluto. When I started in astronomy, I started looking at this region of the sky because…

— Mike Brown

I have, as it were, my own sun and moon and stars, and a little world all to myself.

— Henry David Thoreau

Our solar system is fantastically bizarre. There are worlds with features we never imagined. Storms larger than planets, moons with under-surface oceans, lakes of…

— Phil Plait

I've been studying the planets and learning the personalities of each planet.

— Dr. Dre

So I saw many planets, and they looked just a little bit brighter than they do from Earth.

— Sally Ride

The planets. Now footnote, I'm including Pluto in the planets, because I think it's terrible what they did to Pluto. And it's still a…

— Demetri Martin

I don't think I'm alone when I say I'd like to see more and more planets fall under the ruthless domination of our solar…

— Jack Handey

All my life, I have been in love with the sky. Even when everything was falling apart around me, the sky was always there…

— Yoko Ono