"I guess the two things I was most……" — Clyde Tombaugh
"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 engine and I loved the machinery."
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30 Quotes by Clyde Tombaugh
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It was depressing, ... I worried about how I would make a living. I didn't want to stay on the…
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How does a pansy, for example, select the ingredients from soil to get the right colors for the flower? Now…
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I doubt that the phenomenon was any terrestrial reflection, because... nothing of the kind has ever appeared before or since...…
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A person that much interested in science is going to neglect his social life somewhat, but not completely, because that…
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By the time I was in sixth grade I could bound every country in the world from memory.
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You have to have hope. Otherwise, I don't think you could handle it. Of course, you have to have both…
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Young man, I am afraid you are wasting your time. If there were any more planets they would have been…
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You have to compete with others in the field. Sometimes the competition gets pretty fierce because you're competing for funds…
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I used to think about how nice it would be to visit the planets. Of course, I didn't expect to…
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When I was in the fourth grade, I became intensely interested in geography and I learned it well.
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I was interested in telescopes and the way they worked because I had an intense desire to see what things…
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I realized that I would have some very tough sledding, and I was very discouraged because I didn't see much…
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More Engine Quotes
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Again, with two small children it's incredibly hard to commit yourself to anything because you're just getting interested in it…
— Jo Brand
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Our democracy must be not only the envy of the world but the engine of our own renewal. There is…
— William J. Clinton
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James Watt patented his steam engine on the eve of the American Revolution, consummating a relationship between coal and the…
— Jeremy Rifkin
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The animal frame, though destined to fulfill so many other ends, is as a machine more perfect than the best…
— James Prescott Joule
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You will be able to appreciate the influence of such an Engine on the future progress of science. I live…
— Charles Babbage
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Enthusiasm is the steam that drives the engine.
— Napoleon Hill
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It is arguable whether the human race have been gainers by the march of science beyond the steam engine. Electricity…
— Winston Churchill
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We seem ambitious God's whole work to undo. ...With new diseases on ourselves we war, And with new physic, a…
— Michel de Montaigne
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The ultimate search engine would basically understand everything in the world, and it would always give you the right thing.…
— Larry Page
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Enthusiasm is the engine of success..
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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What worries me though, is that after all those victories people don't see me as a human being anymore. I…
— Evgeni Plushenko
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In health of mind and body, men should see with their own eyes, hear and speak without trumpets, walk on…
— John Ruskin
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