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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Can you imagine young people nowadays making a study of trigonometry for the fun of it? Well I did. Clyde Tombaugh Read Quote
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 Read Quote
By the time I was in sixth grade I could bound every country in the world from memory. Clyde Tombaugh Read Quote
