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