Even in our deep ocean, there are ecosystems at work with no light whatsoever down in the deepest po...
ALAN STERN I ... was not comfortable with launching without backup power. I've been working on this for 17 year...
ALAN STERN We really expect the mission to be transformational. This is the capstone of the original visits to ...
ALAN STERN This is the capstone of the initial reconnaissance of the planets, the first mission to the last pla...
ALAN STERN This is the capstone of the missions to the planets that NASA has led since the 1960s.
ALAN STERN It used to be said that Pluto is a misfit. But now we know Earth is the misfit. This is the most pop...
ALAN STERN It used to be that Pluto was a misfit. Now it turns out that Earth is the misfit. Most planets in th...
ALAN STERN It'll be the fastest spacecraft ever to Jupiter…13 months after launch....
ALAN STERN SWUIS operated flawlessly. We think we've got some great data in our pocket including some spectacul...
ALAN STERN This is in a real sense the capstone of the initial missions to explore the planets. Pluto, its moon...
ALAN STERN One thing scientists do is to find order among a large number of facts, and one way to do that acros...
ALAN STERN Science is really about individual experts reaching a consensus.
ALAN STERN I tend to think of Pluto and its moons as presents sitting under a Christmas tree. They're wrapp...
ALAN STERN I just think it's patently absurd for scientists to categorize objects on the basis of the numbe...
ALAN STERN We really just didn't realize the diversity of planetary types in our solar system. Pluto looked...
ALAN STERN Pluto has strong atmospheric cycles: it snows on the surface; the snows sublimate and go back into t...
ALAN STERN I tell public audiences, don't go to a podiatrist for brain surgery; don't go to an astronom...
ALAN STERN Why would you listen to an astronomer about a planet?
ALAN STERN No one working as an astronomer is shackled in chains. This is a tremendous profession. There are lo...
ALAN STERN A river is a river, independent of whether there are other rivers nearby. In science, we call things...
ALAN STERN Going to the Kuiper Belt is like an archaeological dig into the history of the solar system.
ALAN STERN During one of the Apollo missions, I saw Walter Cronkite showing off the flight plan. It just mesmer...
ALAN STERN I like the planets because they are real places that you can go to and send machines to. Faraway ast...
ALAN STERN The basic story for Golden Spike is that we discovered a way to create do-it-yourself Apollo program...
ALAN STERN In science, we take large numbers of disparate facts and reduce them to see patterns. We use the pat...
ALAN STERN The costs of badly-run NASA projects are paid for with cutbacks or delays in NASA projects that didn...
ALAN STERN Just because Pluto orbits with many other dwarf planets doesn't change what it is, just as wheth...
ALAN STERN Pluto is still active four and a half billion years into its history. It was expected that small pla...
ALAN STERN It's interesting - Pluto's almost a brand unto itself. It's the farthest. It's the m...
ALAN STERN It's now our job to be good stewards of the spacecraft. and to learn to fly it in the real environme...
ALAN STERN The air conditioning was off. The flight controllers were sitting there wiping sweat.
ALAN STERN Two or three days doesn't mean a hill of beans.
ALAN STERN It'll be the fastest spacecraft ever to Jupiter…13 months after launch. We pass the Moon in just n...
ALAN STERN The big lesson of planetary science is when you do a first reconnaissance of a new kind of object, y...
ALAN STERN Just as a Chihuahua is still a dog, these ice dwarfs are still planetary bodies. The misfit becomes ...
ALAN STERN The Kuiper Belt is the largest structure in the solar system. We used to think Pluto was a misfit.
ALAN STERN I expect New Horizons will see more that Hubble cannot see.
ALAN STERN To keep everyone invested in your vision, you have to back up a little bit and really analyze who th...
ALAN STERN There was a time when Pluto - which NASA's New Horizons spacecraft at last explored in 2015, a m...
ALAN STERN When we first sent missions to Jupiter, no one expected to find moons that would have active volcano...
ALAN STERN The first mission to Mars did not expect to find craters and river valleys, and yet they did. The fi...
ALAN STERN Just because Pluto or comets aren't as big as Jupiter doesn't mean they are not scientifical...
ALAN STERN The air conditioning was off. The flight controllers were sitting there wiping sweat. If they were d...
ALAN STERN It'll be the fastest spacecraft ever to Jupiter…13 months after launch. We pass the Moon in just ni...
ALAN STERN New Horizons is a very high-tech, small, roughly 1,000-pound spacecraft with the most powerful batte...
ALAN STERN Just as a Chihuahua is still a dog, these ice dwarfs are still planetary bodies.
ALAN STERN It's very hard to motivate yourself and others with only one goal - particularly if it's com...
ALAN STERN CASIS has to succeed because for it not to succeed would be a huge setback for the International Spa...
ALAN STERN Pluto is just the brightest of the many objects in the Kuiper Belt. It's a fossil relic of the forma...
ALAN STERN No one predicted Mercury would be a planetary core with the mantle stripped off. No one predicted vo...
ALAN STERN Its surface is only 40 degrees above absolute zero, covered with exotic ice. We think it's going to ...
ALAN STERN The Kuiper Belt is the largest mapped structure in our planetary system, three times as big as all t...
ALAN STERN I don't believe we should classify planetary objects by location. We should use properties of the ob...
ALAN STERN I have July 14, 2015, emblazoned on my calendar. That's our arrival date at Pluto. We are now quite ...
ALAN STERN We call it seeing in the dark.
ALAN STERN If you put Earth out beyond Neptune, you wouldn't be able to call it a planet because it couldn&...
ALAN STERN Not even Tombaugh and his mentors could have forecast how fascinating their new planet would turn ou...
ALAN STERN Pluto is as far across as Manhattan to Miami, but its atmosphere is bigger than the Earth's.
ALAN STERN It says something very deep about humans and our society, something very good about us, that we'...
ALAN STERN There are lots of really interesting little planets out there in the Kuiper Belt, but Pluto's th...
ALAN STERN I think when people see Pluto revealed by New Horizons, its satellite system, its complex surface, i...
ALAN STERN The New Horizons Pluto mission will be the first mission to a binary object and will help us underst...
ALAN STERN We made more than just scientific discoveries... we rediscovered how much people love exploration.
ALAN STERN As a planetary scientist, I don't know what else to call Pluto: It's big and round and thous...
ALAN STERN The Kuiper belt region, which I call the third zone because it lies beyond the rocky terrestrial pla...
ALAN STERN Just speaking for myself, I think the return of people to the Moon has a lot to offer for understand...
ALAN STERN When I started working with NASA in 1989 as part of a mission to send spacecraft to Pluto, I knew it...
ALAN STERN Typically in science, individual scientists make up their minds about scientific fact or theory one ...
ALAN STERN It's really going spectacularly well. The whole approach to testing a spacecraft is to walk before y...
ALAN STERN It's ... strictly coincidental that Pluto of course was named for the god of the underworld and we'r...
ALAN STERN Every mission has life-or-death moments.
ALAN STERN A miniature poodle is not not a dog just because it's miniature.
ALAN STERN Either data supports the observations or they don't. Voting doesn't work in science.
ALAN STERN We're in the space exploration business, and the outer solar system is a wild, wooly place. We h...
ALAN STERN At the time of Apollo 11, I was a grade-schooler, and I remember every time an Apollo mission would ...
ALAN STERN Science doesn't work by voting. Did people vote on the theory of relativity? No! It's either...
ALAN STERN The solar system is completely wide open. Almost anywhere we go, I'm sure we would learn a lot.
ALAN STERN This is, in a very real sense, the capstone of the initial reconnaissance of the planets that the Un...
ALAN STERN It's ... strictly coincidental that Pluto, of course, was named for the god of the underworld and we...
ALAN STERN After 'The Wonder Years,' I ended up having a voiceover career, which was something I never ...
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 The true genius of a Woman is her subtle flair in creating the illusion that you are the smart one
JOSH STERN Dr. Suess said: 'Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened..'

I tell my dat...
JOSH STERN Man is a complex being; he makes the deserts bloom and lakes die.
GIL STERN I still feel like I gotta prove something. There are a lot of people hoping I fail. But I like that....
HOWARD STERN Experience is a comb that life gives you after you lose your hair.
JUDITH STERN It's ok for a man to commit adultery if his wife is ugly
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 I am fourth-generation deaf, which means everyone in my immediate family is deaf. So I grew up alway...
SHOSHANNAH STERN How is it that, in the face of overwhelming scientific evidence, there are still some who would deny...
NICHOLAS STERN I'd die for your sins, but I'd probably enjoy them first
JOSH STERN Revenge is a dish best served in something microwaveable
JOSH STERN You're only given as much as you can handle, before going back for seconds
JOSH STERN Maturity is when you no longer get the urge to make snow angels in mud season
JOSH STERN Anyone can spin a victory, it's a total loss that demands creativity
JOSH STERN If the love is not madness, then the sex is not insane
JOSH STERN the only drinking problem I've ever had, is figuring out why I'm still stuck in this salad spinner
JOSH STERN What I lack in brilliance, I more than make up for in glitter
JOSH STERN positivity is the father of reinvention
JOSH STERN Don't ever mistake silence for ignorance, when it is obviously stupidity
JOSH STERN The only way I’d ever die of a broken heart, is if I slammed into something really hard
JOSH STERN It's not that I'm ahead of my time, it's more that the world is running late
JOSH STERN If you're going to walk down the aisle together, best to go single file
JOSH STERN Trying to balance chivalry with equality, I always open a door for a Lady...then stick my foot out
JOSH STERN If you're stuck in the past, you go forward in reverse
JOSH STERN A watched pot never boils.... but it does develop paranoia
JOSH STERN When she says 'I've never done this before" she just means with you
JOSH STERN If it's the thought that counts, then ignorance must use a calculator
JOSH STERN Manners without sincerity, is called polite society
JOSH STERN Some people are so positive, that when they slip in dog poop, they pirouette
JOSH STERN I hate cutting my wrists while shaving
JOSH STERN Sure I eat my feelings, but I save the emotional roller coaster for dessert
JOSH STERN I've always been a poor sport and a sore loser...any other behavior might encourage a repeat perform...
JOSH STERN Who enjoys life more? Well to start with, definitely the Living
JOSH STERN It's not hard to fail...it's hard to accept you failed...but once that's out of the way, it's pretty...
JOSH STERN If a picture paints a thousand words, then a naked picture paints a thousand words without any vowel...
JOSH STERN Women need a reason to have sex, while men just need an angle
JOSH STERN Friends might lose touch but never lose feelings
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 Most of the time, I get auditions for deaf characters where the scene has them communicating in real...
SHOSHANNAH STERN The only other thing I can really remember wanting to do besides acting was a gas station attendant....
DANIEL STERN I've actually apologized to some people I was a real jerk to, because I feel ashamed. I didn'...
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 The only threesome I've ever experienced is with Pantene 2 in 1
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 In order to butterfly kiss, does it require caterpillar lips?
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 I feel I should defer to the writers and the directors because they're the ones who have the com...
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 Okay, well, I guess I'm still a kid. Because when I get really angry and fired up and I feel lik...
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