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Clyde Tombaugh

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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.


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


— Clyde Tombaugh


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


— Clyde Tombaugh


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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 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.


— Clyde Tombaugh


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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.


— Clyde Tombaugh


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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.


— Clyde Tombaugh


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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.


— Clyde Tombaugh


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I think the driving thing was curiosity about the universe. That fascinated me. I didn't think anything about being famous or anything like that, I was just interested in the concepts involved.


— Clyde Tombaugh


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Tombaugh (1906–1997)".

Although he is best known for discovering the dwarf planet Pluto in 1930 the first object to be discovered in what would later be identified as the Kuiper belt Tombaugh also discovered many asteroids; he also called for the serious scientific research of unidentified flying objects.

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