"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 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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