I guess they just took it for granted that that was what I was interested in and let nature take its course. Clyde Tombaugh Read Quote
I think the driving thing was curiosity about the universe. That fascinated me. I didn’t think anything about being famous or anything like that, I was just interested in the concepts involved. Clyde Tombaugh Read Quote
That’s the way I got along in life. I don’t ever remember being particularly jealous of anybody, because I figured if I can’t do it myself, I don’t deserve to get it. Clyde Tombaugh Read Quote
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 Read Quote
You wonder about it and wonder how will I make an instrument that can handle this kind of a problem. Clyde Tombaugh Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote