Clyde Tombaugh

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

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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

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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. ↗

— Clyde Tombaugh

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Unfortunately, a lot of the concepts in the Bible are based on ancient mythology that doesn't fit the findings of science. ↗

— Clyde Tombaugh

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We were suddenly faced with the necessity of training a lot of young men in the art of navigation. ↗

— Clyde Tombaugh

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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

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When I was in the fourth grade, I became intensely interested in geography and I learned it well. ↗

— Clyde Tombaugh

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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. ↗

— Clyde Tombaugh

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You wonder about it and wonder how will I make an instrument that can handle this kind of a problem. ↗

— Clyde Tombaugh

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