Quotes About Space

I'm an avid watcher of the Nat Geo channel, where I watch shows about how the planets are formed, and shows about moons, quasars, black holes.

Planetary missions are great, but they're usually only brief snapshots of those planets and also really very close-up.

I'd like to jump a couple hundred years into the future and work with the scientists who are getting back the first information from our probes to planets orbiting nearby stars.

There may be hundreds of small seed planets - or planetesimals - which grow in the disk of matter around a star.

There's something cool about being involved in new missions to other planets.

Ultimately, what we're looking for in the long run is to find other Earth-like planets.

Kepler's blown the lid off everything we know about extra-solar planets.

In the future we're going to have interplanetary, we're going to have two planets that human beings are living on.

We're very specific when we're drawing work plans. We think about the chances of when a person gets off the elevator where they will go. We think about how people get to a coffee machine, when they go and get their lunch, when they go to the bathroom.

As plans for the first lunar landing started to be made, nobody had really thought about who would be out first.

I could play a gig on the moon and not be nervous about it.

A couple of games, I played up front when Diego Costa was not there. We know to create movement - not even to get the ball, but create space for others. Now I understand football is not always with the ball at my feet.

Tiangong 1, our home in space, was comfortable and pleasant.

Having plenty of living space has to be the greatest luxury in a city, and I guess in some sense Bombay is the antithesis of what living in Canada must be.

I think that one of the things that will come out of the New Horizons mission is that the public will take a look, and they won't know what else to call Pluto but a planet - and a pretty exciting one.

Back before the Kuiper Belt was discovered, Pluto did look like a misfit that didn't belong with either the terrestrials or the giant planets.

Pluto has a very interesting history, and there is a lot of work that we need to do to understand this very complicated place.

Pluto is as far across as Manhattan to Miami, but its atmosphere is bigger than the Earth's.

The Pluto system is much more complex than I had expected.

Jupiter, Pluto, pick a planet: we can go there. I just got a bit more work to do in the music industry, and we're going to space, baby.

Pluto's orbit is so elongated that it crosses the orbit of another planet. Now that's... you've got no business doing that if you want to call yourself a planet. Come on, now! There's something especially transgressive about that.

Pluto is the new Mars.

You get this really cool groove when you're playing just piano, bass, and drums where everyone's sort of feeling each other's space, which is the only way to put it, but it really is true, and everyone's sort of sitting in their own pocket. It's kind of jazz-like.

When you are playing with a few players in the pocket, it doesn't leave me isolated. I have a bit more space to work and be higher up the pitch.