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Clyde Tombaugh Facts
Clyde Tombaugh Is Born On February 4, 1906
Clyde Tombaugh Zodiac Sign Is Aquarius
Clyde Tombaugh Zodiac Symbol Is Water Bearer
Clyde Tombaugh Chinese Zodiac Element Is Yang Fire
Clyde Tombaugh Chinese Zodiac Animal Is Horse
Clyde Tombaugh Occupation Is Scientist
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A person that much interested in science is going to neglect his social life somewhat, but not completely, because that isnt healthy either. So one has to work it out according to ones own inclinations, how one wants to proportion these things. - Clyde Tombaugh Quotes
Although my early equipment was very modest, later I made my own and they were more powerful. - Clyde Tombaugh Quotes
By the time I was in sixth grade I could bound every country in the world from memory. - Clyde Tombaugh Quotes
Can you imagine young people nowadays making a study of trigonometry for the fun of it? Well I did. - Clyde Tombaugh Quotes
How does a pansy, for example, select the ingredients from soil to get the right colors for the flower? Now theres a great miracle. I think theres a supreme power behind all of this. I see it in nature. - Clyde Tombaugh Quotes
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 Quotes
I guess they just took it for granted that that was what I was interested in and let nature take its course. - Clyde Tombaugh Quotes
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 Quotes
I realized that I would have some very tough sledding, and I was very discouraged because I didnt see much hope of getting into the field I wanted to get into with no college education. - Clyde Tombaugh Quotes
I shed many a tear when the steam engines went out of style on the railroads. Id like to seem them come back, but I realize the diesels are more efficient. - Clyde Tombaugh Quotes
I think the driving thing was curiosity about the universe. That fascinated me. I didnt think anything about being famous or anything like that, I was just interested in the concepts involved. - Clyde Tombaugh Quotes
I think theres 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 dont have to think about it. - Clyde Tombaugh Quotes
I thought Id better check this third plate, which is another date, see if theres 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 Quotes
I used to believe there were people on Mars, and of course now we know there arent. Mars held particular interest. I was curious what kind of beings they would look like. - Clyde Tombaugh Quotes
I used to think about how nice it would be to visit the planets. Of course, I didnt 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 Quotes
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 Id do arithmetic exercises. - Clyde Tombaugh Quotes
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 Quotes
It was depressing, very depressing. I worried about how I would make a living. I didnt want to stay on the farm. It didnt offer the challenge I wanted and yet, without a college education, I felt that I was really out of luck. - Clyde Tombaugh Quotes
Thats the way I got along in life. I dont ever remember being particularly jealous of anybody, because I figured if I cant do it myself, I dont deserve to get it. - Clyde Tombaugh Quotes
The planets are never the same twice, theyre 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 wasnt copied from somewhere. - Clyde Tombaugh Quotes
They would get books on astronomy out of the city library for me. They would allow me stay up late at night to look at things in the sky. - Clyde Tombaugh Quotes
To me, the noise of a threshing machine is better music than a lot of music I hear nowadays. I took a mans place in the threshing crew when I was only 14 years old. - Clyde Tombaugh Quotes
Unfortunately, a lot of the concepts in the Bible are based on ancient mythology that doesnt fit the findings of science. - Clyde Tombaugh Quotes
We were suddenly faced with the necessity of training a lot of young men in the art of navigation. - Clyde Tombaugh Quotes
Well I realized it more later and then I felt a little bit more proud of myself that I had done better than I thought I was doing. - Clyde Tombaugh Quotes
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 Quotes
When I was in the fourth grade, I became intensely interested in geography and I learned it well. - Clyde Tombaugh Quotes
When the temperature is freezing, its a bit hard on your fingers, but I was interested in putting down what I saw. And thats what paid off. - Clyde Tombaugh Quotes
You have to compete with others in the field. Sometimes the competition gets pretty fierce because youre competing for funds or grants to do your work, the financial work. - Clyde Tombaugh Quotes
You have to have hope. Otherwise, I dont think you could handle it. Of course, you have to have both luck and pluck to make it. - Clyde Tombaugh Quotes
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