Alan Stern
Related ALAN STERN ALAN STERN ALAN STERN ALAN STERN ALAN STERN Asteroids are the leftover building blocks of rocky planets like Earth. We can't directly see other ... CHARLES BEICHMAN ALAN STERN Once solved, the severe handicaps imposed on space exploration by the weight and chemical limitation... DONALD A. WOLLHEIM The discovery of a solar system object larger than Pluto is very exciting. WILHELM ALTENHOFF BUZZ ALDRIN As of now it has been analyzed and estimated that our Sun’s mass consists of around 99.9% of the t... THOMAS VAZHAKUNNATHU ALAN STERN The solar system that likely will be formed around this star will include planets orbiting in differ... JAN HOLLIS Whether planets around these stars could be Earth-like would depend on orbital distance. There have ... CHARLES LADA It's different from the inner rocky planets. It's different from the outer gaseous planets. And as s... ANDY DANTZLER MICHIO KAKU This comet formed at very edge of the solar system ... out by pluto ... and spent all its lifetime o... DON BROWNLEE The mass of our planet earth is only around 0.0003% of the total mass of this solar system, whereas ... THOMAS VAZHAKUNNATHU JENNIFER NIVEN All three objects are nearly Pluto-sized or larger, and all are in elliptical orbits tilted out of t... MIKE BROWN If Pluto is a planet, it seems reasonable that something that's bigger than Pluto, and further away ... MIKE BROWN If you are a misfit in one place, you will be a great fit in another. ALAN COHEN I was pretty good at planets in our solar system, so I thought, well, it?s not much of a stretch to ... LYNETTE COOK The planets in our solar system, the precursors anyway, probably went through this stage. DEREK RICHARDSON ALAN STERN ALAN STERN ALAN STERN SETH SHOSTAK ALAN STERN I don't think I'm alone when I say I'd like to see more and more planets fall under the ruthless dom... JACK HANDY There is nothing particularly special about that location of the centre of mass. If you were to find... MIKE BROWN Since UB313 is decidedly larger than Pluto, it is now increasingly hard to justify calling Pluto a p... FRANK BERTOLDI The favored theory proposes that planets were created from material accreting around a star. Around ... BOHDAN PACZYNSKI We believe they hold the most primitive materials in the solar system and that they played a role in... JOSEPH VEVERKA J.K. ROWLING We do not know if planets like those in our solar system are able to form in the highly energetic, d... CHARLES BEICHMAN Since UB 313 is decidedly larger than Pluto, it is now increasingly hard to justify calling Pluto a ... FRANK BERTOLDI This is the first reconnaissance mission of this region of the solar system. It's the only one of th... HAL WEAVER Of all the planets apart from Earth in our solar system, Mars is the most hospitable. Yeah. Right. B... GREG BEAR NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Some asteroids look like small planets, not very disturbed, and at the other end of the spectrum are... QUENTIN WILLIAMS SETH SHOSTAK There are a lot of people that are surprised that Hubble can even look at planets in our solar syste... ED WEILER ARUNDHATI ROY NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON STEVEN MAGEE REBECCA MCNUTT We do care about planets like the Earth because by now we understood that life as a chemical system ... DIMITAR SASSELOV I believe that these extra-terrestrial vehicles and their crews are visiting this planet from other ... GORDON COOPER A misfit is like the round peg that cannot fit into the square hole or the running river that just c... PEARL ZHU SANHITA BARUAH CARL SAGAN PAUL DAVIES A time will come when men will stretch out their eyes. They should see planets like our Earth. CHRISTOPHER WREN ALAN RICKMAN We expected that there might be Earth-mass planets here because the planet we know about is weird. I... JAYMIE MATTHEWS CARRIE NUGENT SETH SHOSTAK It is now increasingly hard to justify calling Pluto a planet if UB313 is not also given this status... FRANK BERTOLDI MARTIN REES STEVEN PINKER NICOLAUS COPERNICUS GARRY TRUDEAU Could it be that the planets are castaway heads. VISAR ZHITI I was feeling like a real misfit in middle school, but when I saw 'Wicked,' it made me feel ... JENNIFER DAMIANO DAVID MACKAY CHRIS HADFIELD MARY DALY ALAN STERN It's almost going to look like a hood ornament on top of that big rocket. We want to give it a lot o... GEORGE DILLER I always thought it would be cool to go to the island of misfit toys. CAMREN BICONDOVA JIM CRITCHFIELD THOMM QUACKENBUSH I think the new discoveries are going to indicate that Pluto should not really be called a planet. DONALD SCHNEIDER SETH SHOSTAK Now we can say that planets around pulsars are probably not that unusual. Maybe planets can form aro... ALEKSANDER WOLSZCZAN The fundamental reason for this mission is that we are collecting what we believe are the best prese... DON BROWNLEE Life is weird and wonderful like that, is it not. SONYA.E.WILLIAMS It would be impolite to Pluto to degrade it to something less. FRANK BERTOLDI I speak the truth. Not everyone who says they are ready to hear it really are. MONIKA ZANDS We were able to rule out Earth-sized planets in some of the orbits where theorists believed they mig... JAYMIE MATTHEWS MARTIN REES ALAN STERN JAMES GUNN KARL MARX We did this mission to collect the most primitive materials we could in the solar system. We went to... DON BROWNLEE STEPHEN CHBOSKY Americans are among the strongest believers in claims that Pluto, discovered in 1930, is a planet. O... DR. NOAH BROSCH CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE MARGARET ATWOOD ISAAC NEWTON A misfit like me getting anywhere in Hollywood as I somehow have, seemed, certainly at the time of &... JEREMY DAVIES Now we can say that (planets around pulsars) are not uncommon. ALEKSANDER WOLSZCZAN ALAN STERN I'm sort of a misfit everywhere. APOORV SAXENA MICHIO KAKU ALBERT EINSTEIN JEFFREY FRY MICHIO KAKU
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DANIEL STERN Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music... ISAAC STERN I was really trying to anchor down the band. We should explore this new song, but we've got to have ... AARON STERN A lot of his stuff was a lot slower, so there was a period of time where we were all worried. I was ... AARON STERN This record is a showcase of where we've been over the past two years. We've done a lot of touring. ... AARON STERN I think a lot of bands just, they sort of mark themselves as they can only go so far. They sort of s... AARON STERN Kids live vicariously through the lyrics. They identify with them, feel like these are their stories... AARON STERN What a huge game, just to play the USA, the powerhouse of baseball. We can play baseball, too. We're... ADAM STERN That was a huge game to win, playing the U.S.. We (Canadians) can play baseball too, we're not just ... ADAM STERN Any win in this tournament is huge and coming against the U.S., they have the most talent out there,... ADAM STERN We like to tell everyone we can play baseball, too. We're not just a hockey country. ADAM STERN It's just something that tightened up on me and hasn't let go. I'm hoping I can get someone to drop ... ADAM STERN The 3D goldfish was quite a challenge for us, as it was required to behave in a photo-realistic mann... ADAM STERN In the first half, we came out nervous. At half, I said 'come on guys, let's go.' We settled down an... ADAM STERN You take us over the course of a long schedule and obviously we couldn't stick with (the Americans).... ADAM STERN With these Olympics, I kind of miss it. Any kind of winter sport like that you wish you were good at... ADAM STERN He kind of brushed it off. ADAM STERN JOSH STERN JOSH STERN GIL STERN HOWARD STERN JUDITH STERN HOWARD STERN A man possesses talent; genius possesses the man. ISAAC STERN I would say the referees have the toughest game to call. I would say that there's a lot of offic... DAVID STERN SHOSHANNAH STERN How is it that, in the face of overwhelming scientific evidence, there are still some who would deny... NICHOLAS STERN JOSH STERN JOSH STERN JOSH STERN JOSH STERN JOSH STERN JOSH STERN JOSH STERN JOSH STERN JOSH STERN JOSH STERN JOSH STERN JOSH STERN JOSH STERN JOSH STERN JOSH STERN JOSH STERN JOSH STERN JOSH STERN JOSH STERN JOSH STERN JOSH STERN JOSH STERN JOSH STERN JOSH STERN JOSH STERN JOSH STERN JOSH STERN JOSH STERN Wal-Mart provides a chilling example of the damage that low-wage, nonunion corporations can wreak, a... ANDREW STERN When you add physical requirements to jobs that don't need them, you begin to weed out a whole pool ... ANDREW STERN In Washington, D.C., we are still living in the last century in an industrial revolution, ... India ... ANDREW STERN I can't think of another entertainment sector that's systematically freezing out half the potential ... ANDREW STERN For the protection of the country, nurses are being asked to risk their health in the line of duty, ... ANDREW STERN I'm not a national security expert, I don't have access to that information, [but] I have to presume... ANDREW STERN When we started, we viewed ourselves as faster, better, cheaper ... But what we've come to understan... ANDREW STERN Today we begin to build a global union in very specific terms. In a global economy with global emplo... ANDREW STERN It has no enforceable standards to stop a union from conspiring with employers to keep another stron... ANDREW STERN And as it is set up today, I believe, sadly, it has no hope of uniting the 90 percent of workers who... ANDREW STERN Not every decision you make is going to be 100 percent perfect, ... Overall, Christi [Hogin] has don... ANDY STERN He comes with an enormous amount of good will. I mean, people have really seen him stand up in strik... ANDY STERN We're a healthcare union. He's a doctor. He's delivered healthcare at the bedside, delivered it as g... ANDY STERN In fact, he only registered as a Democrat four months ago, just weeks before entering the race. ANDY STERN Let's be clear -- state employees and other voters in New Hampshire take a huge risk by supporting h... ANDY STERN It is unfair to send [SEIU] members into the voting booth on primary day without giving them the inf... ANDY STERN The world has changed. We can help shape the global economy, but ... the strength of unions is [not]... ANDY STERN When we strengthen our cooperation and help workers in the same industry unite, everybody wins, ANDY STERN [By pulling out of the AFL-CIO and proposing to start an organization, Stern and his Teamster ally J... ANDY STERN The Democratic Party silence on Iraq is another moment of a voice lost. Faced with votes in favor of... ANDY STERN I think it's important that people think about what they are doing and that includes what they a... NICHOLAS STERN SHOSHANNAH STERN The only other thing I can really remember wanting to do besides acting was a gas station attendant.... DANIEL STERN HOWARD STERN The question is always 'What is the role of a labor movement?' How much is about collective ... ANDY STERN We run enormous risks and we know what kind of reductions of greenhouse gases are necessary to drast... NICHOLAS STERN Republicans have been very successful. There are three things Americans don't like: big unions, ... ANDY STERN Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay. BILL STERN JOSH STERN I’m no expert, no natural-born talent, definitely no guru. As you’ll soon learn, only through a ... DANIEL STERN You will ultimately be defined by the sum total of your responses to circumstances, situations and e... DAVID STERN The Ports Authority opposes this bill. It interferes with, and is inconsistent with, the Supreme Cou... BILL STERN I grew up in South Carolina. There are a lot of things about state government that we're not proud o... BILL STERN The only argument I keep hearing is you don't have the dollars to expand. Well, I'm addressing that.... BILL STERN Daniel Island will be disposed of as the governor has asked us to do. BILL STERN Edith was at the forefront of the move to modernist design that influenced architecture and furnitur... BILL STERN Our elections are free--it's in the results where eventually we pay. BILL STERN The Supreme Court made it clear that the authority gets the first shot at the land. With their decis... BILL STERN The port business is capacity. You've got to be able to serve your customer base today and future cu... BILL STERN Now it's time to change the perception that we don't want to work with the town. BILL STERN The decision speaks for itself and we're moving forward with condemnation. The interpretation is tha... BILL STERN Our elections are free, it's in the results where eventually we pay. BILL STERN You really feel for them. The volunteers talk about their own personal experiences of being oppresse... BOB STERN free and democratic Iraq. BOB STERN It's not appropriate for City Hall to be used for private business. It seems the better part of valo... BOB STERN We need disclosure as to who is funding the Protocol Foundation, BOB STERN I would give odds that something would pass but it wouldn't shock me if they failed to agree. This i... BOB STERN He told us there were three N's of obesity. Nintendo. Netscape. And Nickelodeon. BOB STERN [The governor didn't pitch political reform] with his fingers crossed behind his back, ... But polit... BOB STERN It's much more important to raise money to defeat (Prop. 77) than it is to raise money for their own... BOB STERN When donors have wealthy relatives, that enhances the value of the donation. A candidate loves to kn... BOB STERN It always raises questions when someone goes from one side to the other. One of the questions that c... BOB STERN It was the Michael Jordan/Nike phenomenon that really let people see that athletes were OK, and blac... DAVID STERN JOSH STERN If you look at all the serious scientists in the world, there is no big disagreement on the basics o... NICHOLAS STERN If coal is going to be used, the only response - because it is the dirtiest of all fuels - is that w... NICHOLAS STERN I would say that workers in general, and white workers particularly, are correct that their economic... ANDY STERN SHOSHANNAH STERN There are more bad musicians than there is bad music. ISAAC STERN Our elections are free -- it's in the results where eventually we pay. BILL STERN Some people's lives seem to flow in a narrative; mine had many stops and starts. That's what trauma ... JESSICA STERN Meat is a wasteful use of water and creates a lot of greenhouse gases. It puts enormous pressure on ... NICHOLAS STERN What we came up with is a dress code that even Mark Cuban could comply with - if he wanted to. DAVID STERN HOWARD STERN The basic scientific conclusions on climate change are very robust and for good reason. The greenhou... NICHOLAS STERN There are different uniforms for different occasions. There's the uniform you wear on the court, the... DAVID STERN
It used to be said that Pluto is a misfit. But now we know Earth is the misfit. This is the most pop... 
Just as a Chihuahua is still a dog, these ice dwarfs are still planetary bodies. The misfit becomes ... 
This is in a real sense the capstone of the initial missions to explore the planets. Pluto, its moon... 
When I was a little kid, we only knew about our nine planets. Since then, we've downgraded Pluto... 
One in 200 stars has habitable Earth-like planets surrounding it - in the galaxy, half a billion sta... 
But I bring it up to let you know that this is the way I feel right now. Like Pluto and Jupiter are ... 
The planets and moons of our solar system are blatantly visible because they reflect sunlight. Witho... 
a miniature model of the solar system, contained within a glass dome. It was a beautiful thing; each... 
If you slid Pluto to where Earth is right now, heat from the sun would evaporate that ice, and it wo... 
Estimates are that at least 70 per cent of all stars are accompanied by planets, and since the latte... 
The two men had a conversation. Brief, cryptic, to the point. As though they had exchanged numbers a... 
All Plutophiles are based in America. If you go to other countries, they have much less of an attach... 
Pluto is dead, I know as I observed the Terminator that was sent to kill it 
There's always one sure way of finding out that you're a misfit. When you're eleven years old, and y... 
No matter how "normal" people look, living "ordinary" lives, everyone has a story to tell. And may b... 
We have swept through all of the planets in the solar system, from Mercury to Neptune, in a historic... 
If we do discover more than one type of life on Earth, we can be fairly certain that the universe is... 
Maverick is a word which appeals to me more than misfit. Maverick is active, misfit is passive. 
Our solar system is actually a wild frontier, teeming with different, diverse places: planets and mo... 
Maybe the search for life shouldn't restrict attention to planets like Earth. Science fiction wr... 
An enormous amount of scientific language is metaphorical. We talk about a genetic code, where code ... 
Accordingly, since nothing prevents the earth from moving, I suggest that we should now consider als... 
Because I was a diminutive, arty kid, I felt like a misfit in high school - but who doesn't? 
I watched the moon landing as a boy, and I thought that was the most exciting thing ever, going into... 
The world, when you look at it, it just can't be random. I mean, it's so different than the ... 
We will look upon the earth and her sister planets as being with us, not for us. One does not rape a... 
Venus is now astrologically square with Pluto. That means there isn't a hip planet left. 
She was an exotic flower amongst the snowdrifts, out of place, a Technicolor misfit in a monochrome ... 
In future, children won't perceive the stars as mere twinkling points of light: they'll lear... 
When I was a kid, I was obsessed with different planets in the solar system, and I used to create, f... 
All social rules and all relations between individuals are eroded by a cash economy, avarice drags P... 
Welcome to the island of misfit toys 
It's funny, you know, they're always telling me to be a man, take it like a man, act like a man, lik... 
Science fiction is filled with Martians and space travel to other planets, and things like that. 
Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion. 
Intelligent life on other planets? I'm not even sure there is on earth! 
Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters. 
The true genius of a Woman is her subtle flair in creating the illusion that you are the smart one 
Man is a complex being; he makes the deserts bloom and lakes die. 
I still feel like I gotta prove something. There are a lot of people hoping I fail. But I like that.... 
Experience is a comb that life gives you after you lose your hair. 
It's ok for a man to commit adultery if his wife is ugly 
I am fourth-generation deaf, which means everyone in my immediate family is deaf. So I grew up alway... 
Most of the time, I get auditions for deaf characters where the scene has them communicating in real... 
Okay, well, I guess I'm still a kid. Because when I get really angry and fired up and I feel lik...