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Clyde Tombaugh Quotes

American - Scientist | February 4, 1906 - January 17, 1997

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.

Life Myself Jealousy Jealous Way

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?

Life Future People Sympathy Living

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

Time Memory World Country Bound

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.

Education Hope College Tough See

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.

Style Back More Realize Out Seem

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

Science Bible Mythology Ancient Fit

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.

Nature Power Intelligence Yourself

Although my early equipment was very modest, later I made my own and they were more powerful.

Powerful Early My Own More Own Made

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.

Life Work Science Person Healthy

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

Geography Well Interested Learned

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

Nature Take Just Interested Course

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.

Father Loved Two Engine Things Most

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