Clyde Tombaugh Quotes

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• It was depressing, ... I worried about how I would make a living. I didn't want to stay on the farm. It didn't offer the…
• How does a pansy, for example, select the ingredients from soil to get the right colors for the flower? Now there's a great miracle. I…
• I doubt that the phenomenon was any terrestrial reflection, because... nothing of the kind has ever appeared before or since... I was so unprepared for…
• A person that much interested in science is going to neglect his social life somewhat, but not completely, because that isn't healthy either. So one…
• By the time I was in sixth grade I could bound every country in the world from memory.
• I guess the two things I was most interested in were telescopes and steam engines. My father was an engineer on a threshing rig steam…
• You have to have hope. Otherwise, I don't think you could handle it. Of course, you have to have both luck and pluck to make…
• Young man, I am afraid you are wasting your time. If there were any more planets they would have been found long before this.
• You have to compete with others in the field. Sometimes the competition gets pretty fierce because you're competing for funds or grants to do your…
• I used to think about how nice it would be to visit the planets. Of course, I didn't expect to see in my lifetime what…
• When I was in the fourth grade, I became intensely interested in geography and I learned it well.
• I was interested in telescopes and the way they worked because I had an intense desire to see what things looked like, so I learned…
• I realized that I would have some very tough sledding, and I was very discouraged because I didn't see much hope of getting into the…
• I think there's a supreme power behind the whole thing, an intelligence. Look at all of the instincts of nature, both animals and plants, the…
• I guess they just took it for granted that that was what I was interested in and let nature take its course.
• Unfortunately, a lot of the concepts in the Bible are based on ancient mythology that doesn't fit the findings of science.
• That's the way I got along in life. I don't ever remember being particularly jealous of anybody, because I figured if I can't do it…
• I think the driving thing was curiosity about the universe. That fascinated me. I didn't think anything about being famous or anything like that, I…
• Can you imagine young people nowadays making a study of trigonometry for the fun of it? Well I did.
• I was always looking ahead. I used to do all kinds of things for entertainment. When I was young, we had no radio, no TV.…

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