Author: Clyde Tombaugh

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I guess they just took it for granted that that was what I was interested in and let nature take its course.

I guess they just took it for granted that that was what I was interested in and let nature take its course.

- Clyde Tombaugh

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.

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

By the time I was in sixth grade I could bound every country in the world from memory.

By the time I was in sixth grade I could bound every country in the world from memory.

- Clyde Tombaugh

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

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

- Clyde Tombaugh

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?

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

Can you imagine young people nowadays making a study of trigonometry for the fun of it? Well I did.

Can you imagine young people nowadays making a study of trigonometry for the fun of it? Well I did.

- Clyde Tombaugh

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.

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

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.

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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