Clyde Tombaugh Quotes
10 Clyde Tombaugh quotes:
"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."
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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."
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"When the temperature is freezing, it's a bit hard on your fingers, but I was interested in putting down what I saw. And that's what paid off."
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"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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"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."
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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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"We were suddenly faced with the necessity of training a lot of young men in the art of navigation."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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."
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