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At the time of Apollo 11, I was a grade-schooler, and I remember every time an Apollo mission would take place that, like a lot of little boys, I'd gather in front of the TV for hours and hours and hours with my little brother.

~Alan Stern

Topics: Apollo Boy Brother Every Every Time Front Gather Hours Hours And Hours Like Little Little Brother Lot Mission Place Remember Take Time Tv Would I Remember

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Going to the Kuiper Belt is like an archaeological dig into the history of the solar system.

~Alan Stern

Topics: Belt Dig Going History Like Solar Solar System System The History Of

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The big lesson of planetary science is when you do a first reconnaissance of a new kind of object, you should expect the unexpected.

~Alan Stern

Topics: Big Expect Expect The Unexpected First Kind Lesson New New Kind Object Planetary Science Should Unexpected You

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In science, we take large numbers of disparate facts and reduce them to see patterns. We use the patterns to reduce the amount of information. It's the reason we name species and genera and families in biology. It's also the reason we have names for certain types of geological features and so on in other fields.

~Alan Stern

Topics: Also Amount Biology Certain Disparate Facts Families Features Fields Genera Geological Information Large Large Numbers Name Names Numbers Other Patterns Reason Reduce Science See Species Take Them Types Use

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Discovering that our solar system has many more planets than we ever expected, and that most of them are ice dwarfs rather than like Earth and the other rocky terrestrials, is just another step in the revolution in viewpoint that removed the Earth from the center of the physical universe and makes Earth all the more special.

~Alan Stern

Topics: Another Center Discovering Dwarf Earth Ever Expected Ice Just Like Makes Many More Most Other Our Physical Planets Rather Revolution Rocky Solar Solar System Special Step System Than Them Universe Viewpoint

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Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

~Alan Stern

Topics: Absence Evidence

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Typically in science, individual scientists make up their minds about scientific fact or theory one at a time. We don't take votes. We just don't vote on quantum mechanics, the theory of relativity, why the sky is blue, or anything else.

~Alan Stern

Topics: About Anything Anything Else Blue Else Fact Individual Just Make Make Up Mechanics Minds Quantum Quantum Mechanics Relativity Science Scientific Scientists Sky Take Theory Time Up Vote Votes Why

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Most of the oceans in the Solar System are deep beneath ice shelves.

~Alan Stern

Topics: Beneath Deep Ice Most Oceans Shelves Solar Solar System System

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No one working as an astronomer is shackled in chains. This is a tremendous profession. There are lots of neat people, and you get to do cool things. If I had to say something negative, it's that there's often a whole lot of travel that takes me away from my children. That can be a bummer a lot of times.

~Alan Stern

Topics: Astronomer Away Bummer Chains Children Cool Get Had Lot Lots Me Neat Negative Often People Profession Say Something Takes Things Times Travel Tremendous Whole Working You

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Even in our deep ocean, there are ecosystems at work with no light whatsoever down in the deepest portions of the oceanic abyss.

~Alan Stern

Topics: Abyss Deep Deepest Down Ecosystems Even Light Ocean Our Portions Whatsoever Work

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Scientist

Born: November 22nd, 1957

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