We should be ready to reach out beyond our planet and beyond our solar system to find out what is really going on out there.

The public has an incredible capacity for appreciating the wonder of our planet, our solar system, our universe.

Just think: in all the clean, beautiful reaches of the solar system, our planet alone is a blot; our planet alone has death.

Saturn is the most photogenic planet in the solar system.

Not that chance dominated events in the early Solar System, for scientific determinism was also functioning. But chance is an essential factor in all evolutionary events, and the birth and development of our planetary system were not exceptions.

The solar system should be viewed as our backyard, not as some sequence of destinations that we do one at a time.