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Clyde Tombaugh Quotes

Clyde Tombaugh quotes

American Scientist February 4, 1906 – January 17, 1997

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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 or grants to do your work, the financial work. Clyde Tombaugh
Clyde Tombaugh quote: "We were suddenly faced with the necessity of training a lot of..."
We were suddenly faced with the necessity of training a lot of young men in the art of navigation. Clyde Tombaugh
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. We were 30 miles from the public library, out in the sticks in Western Kansas, and so I'd do arithmetic exercises. Clyde Tombaugh
To me, the noise of a threshing machine is better music than a lot of music I hear nowadays. I took a man's place in the threshing crew when I was only 14 years old. Clyde Tombaugh
Clyde Tombaugh quote: "You wonder about it and wonder how will I make an instrument..."
You wonder about it and wonder how will I make an instrument that can handle this kind of a problem. Clyde Tombaugh
Clyde Tombaugh quote: "Can you imagine young people nowadays making a study of..."
Can you imagine young people nowadays making a study of trigonometry for the fun of it? Well I did. Clyde Tombaugh
I thought I'd better check this third plate, which is another date, see if there's an image there in the right place that would be consistent with the images on the other plates. That was the final proof. Clyde Tombaugh
I shed many a tear when the steam engines went out of style on the railroads. I'd like to seem them come back, but I realize the diesels are more efficient. Clyde Tombaugh
Clyde Tombaugh quote: "When I was in the fourth grade, I became intensely interested..."
When I was in the fourth grade, I became intensely interested in geography and I learned it well. Clyde Tombaugh
What you do is, you have your drawing board and a pencil in hand at the telescope. You look in and you make some markings on the paper and you look in again. Clyde Tombaugh
Clyde Tombaugh quote: "Although my early equipment was very modest, later I made my..."
Although my early equipment was very modest, later I made my own and they were more powerful. Clyde Tombaugh
The planets are never the same twice, they're always different, so they could compare the markings I had drawn with their current photographs and they knew that I was drawing what I was really seeing and it wasn't copied from somewhere. Clyde Tombaugh

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