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- Nov 07, 2020
New Quotes
On fresh starts, new cities and beginning again.
Many of the quotes here trace what's new: a new city, a new circle of people, a new chapter after school. Several reflect specifically on relocating and adjusting to a very different pace of life. For more on that theme, see our City quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in Cleveland and started doing plays in high school. And I went to the University of Illinois, and I majored in drama. And after school, I went up to Chicago, because I didn't really know anybody in New York or Los Angeles, and I knew people who were doing plays in Chicago.
- Mission
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was a time when Pluto - which NASA's New Horizons spacecraft at last explored in 2015, a mission I led - was considered the last planet. We now know there are thousands of other - possibly inhabited - planets.
- Science
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- Nov 07, 2020
The big lesson of planetary science is when you do a first reconnaissance of a new kind of object, you should expect the unexpected.
- Moon
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- Nov 07, 2020
The New Horizons Pluto mission will be the first mission to a binary object and will help us understand everything from the origin of Earth's moon to the physics of mass transfer between binary stars.
- Deep Inside
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whether there's even an ocean on Pluto deep inside is a question I hope New Horizons can address in indirect ways.
- Powerful
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- Nov 07, 2020
New Horizons is a very high-tech, small, roughly 1,000-pound spacecraft with the most powerful battery of scientific instrumentation ever brought to bear on a first reconnaissance mission.
- Pluto
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- Nov 07, 2020
Pluto is the new Mars.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Look, I'm a member of the House of Lords and I'm the first to admit that I don't understand how one gets new laws through.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
My heroes were people like Jim Jarmusch. Scorsese was my god. Spike Lee was exciting, doing exactly what we thought we were going to do: personal movies based in, and about, New York. My heroes were all participating in an economic model that was collapsing as I was finishing film school.
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- Nov 07, 2020