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Clyde Tombaugh Quotes

Clyde Tombaugh quotes

American Scientist February 4, 1906 – January 17, 1997

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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 myself, I don't deserve to get it. 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. Clyde Tombaugh
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 has to work it out according to one's own inclinations, how one wants to proportion these things. Clyde Tombaugh
I have a lot of sympathy for young people because I realize how disturbed I was. How would I deal with life in the future? What would I do for a living? Clyde Tombaugh
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 think there's a supreme power behind all of this. I see it in nature. Clyde Tombaugh
It was depressing, very depressing. I worried about how I would make a living. I didn't want to stay on the farm. It didn't offer the challenge I wanted and yet, without a college education, I felt that I was really out of luck. Clyde Tombaugh
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 very ingenious ways they survive. If you cut yourself, you don't have to think about it. Clyde Tombaugh
Clyde Tombaugh quote: "By the time I was in sixth grade I could bound every country..."
By the time I was in sixth grade I could bound every country in the world from memory. Clyde Tombaugh
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 field I wanted to get into with no college education. Clyde Tombaugh
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 was just interested in the concepts involved. Clyde Tombaugh
Clyde Tombaugh quote: "Unfortunately, a lot of the concepts in the Bible are based on..."
Unfortunately, a lot of the concepts in the Bible are based on ancient mythology that doesn't fit the findings of science. Clyde Tombaugh
Clyde Tombaugh quote: "I guess they just took it for granted that that was what I was..."
I guess they just took it for granted that that was what I was interested in and let nature take its course. Clyde Tombaugh
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 has happened. I knew it would happen some day, but it came along faster than I at first thought. Clyde Tombaugh
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 how to use telescopes and find things in the sky. 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. Clyde Tombaugh

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