"I used to believe there were people on……" — Clyde Tombaugh
"I used to believe there were people on Mars, and of course now we know there aren't. Mars held particular interest. I was curious what kind of beings they would look like."
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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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I guess the two things I was most interested in were telescopes and steam engines. My father was an engineer…
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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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