It'll be the fastest spacecraft ever to Jupiter...13 months after launch. We pass the Moon in just nine hours.

It used to be said that Pluto is a misfit. But now we know Earth is the misfit. This is the most populous class of planet in our solar system and we have never sent a mission to this class.

Naming celestial objects is usually done by astronomers and professionals. Other people who are interested in space never get the opportunity to do that kind of thing.

It's strictly coincidental that Pluto of course was named for the god of the underworld and we're describing these Halloween moons

We're in the space exploration business, and the outer solar system is a wild, wooly place. We haven't explored it very well.

There are lots of really interesting little planets out there in the Kuiper Belt, but Pluto's the only one that's got all the cool attributes.

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

A river is a river, independent of whether there are other rivers nearby. In science, we call things what they are based on their attributes, not what they're next to.

Of course Pluto is a planet: It's massive enough to have its shape controlled by gravity rather than material strength, which is the hallmark of planethood.

Competition-driven innovation and price pressure that commercial practices foster can only make human spaceflight ever more common and U.S. leadership in this domain ever clearer.

By bringing the future into the present, you can do something about it usually before it gets too late.

Any society that produces twice as many lawyers as it does poets and preachers is doomed.

After you've seen behind the facade of a stage set you can't take the play seriously any more. You can't go backwards and regain your ignorance

The worst president is closer by nature to the best then either is to anyone who has not gone through what it requires to become president.

Unless there is recognition that women are most vulnerable... and you do something about social and cultural equality for women, you're never going to defeat this pandemic.

The beauty of Judaism is that it demands we ask questions, especially of ourselves.

Each and every one of us can make changes in the way we live our lives and become part of the solution [to climate change]

Every age has its beautiful moments.

Bassett was a member of parliament and a cousin on my father's side of the family. My father delivered him and it became plain in later days that he must have dropped him.

My hope is that the music creates a strange, beautiful, overwhelming - sometimes even frightening - landscape, and invites you to get lost in it.