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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."
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"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."
"When I was in the fourth grade, I became intensely interested in geography and I learned it well."
"I guess they just took it for granted that that was what I was interested in and let nature take its course."
"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."
"We were suddenly faced with the necessity of training a lot of young men in the art of navigation."
"Unfortunately, a lot of the concepts in the Bible are based on ancient mythology that doesn't fit the findings of science."
"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."
"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."
"You wonder about it and wonder how will I make an instrument that can handle this kind of a problem."
"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?"
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