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"We follow the scientists around and look over their shoulders. They're watching their feet: provable mistakes are bad for them. We're looking as far ahead as we can, and we don't get penalized for mistakes."
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Poul Anderson uses the phrase "sunless planet" but other writers used that expression before him. As far as I know, the first use actually refers to a planet that orbits a dark star that emits no light - a planet without a (bright) sun- in The Stone from the Green Star (1931) by Jack Williamson:
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