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 Read Quote
Although my early equipment was very modest, later I made my own and they were more powerful. Clyde Tombaugh Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
When I was in the fourth grade, I became intensely interested in geography and I learned it well. Clyde Tombaugh Read Quote
Unfortunately, a lot of the concepts in the Bible are based on ancient mythology that doesn’t fit the findings of science. Clyde Tombaugh Read Quote
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 Read Quote
We were suddenly faced with the necessity of training a lot of young men in the art of navigation. Clyde Tombaugh Read Quote
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 Read Quote