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Clyde Tombaugh

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

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

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"By the time I was in sixth grade I could bound every country in the world from memory."
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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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"It was depressing, very depressing. I worried about how I would make a living. I didn't want to stay on the farm. It didn't offer the challenge I wanted and yet, without a college education, I felt that I was really out of luck."
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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."
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"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."
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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."
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"Can you imagine young people nowadays making a study of trigonometry for the fun of it? Well I did."
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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."
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"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."
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"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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