I thought I'd better check this third plate, which is another date, see if there's an image there in the right place that would be consistent with the images on the other plates. That was the final proof. (Clyde Tombaugh)
I was interested in telescopes and the way they worked because I had an intense desire to see what things looked like, so I learned how to use telescopes and find things in the sky. (Clyde Tombaugh)
They would get books on astronomy out of the city library for me. They would allow me stay up late at night to look at things in the sky. (Clyde Tombaugh)
How does a pansy, for example, select the ingredients from soil to get the right colors for the flower? Now there's a great miracle. I think there's a supreme power behind all of this. I see it in nature. (Clyde Tombaugh)
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. (Clyde Tombaugh)
Unfortunately, a lot of the concepts in the Bible are based on ancient mythology that doesn't fit the findings of science. (Clyde Tombaugh)
You wonder about it and wonder how will I make an instrument that can handle this kind of a problem. (Clyde Tombaugh)
When the temperature is freezing, it's a bit hard on your fingers, but I was interested in putting down what I saw. And that's what paid off. (Clyde Tombaugh)
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)
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. (Clyde Tombaugh)
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)
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. (Clyde Tombaugh)
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. (Clyde Tombaugh)
Can you imagine young people nowadays making a study of trigonometry for the fun of it? Well I did. (Clyde Tombaugh)
What you do is, you have your drawing board and a pencil in hand at the telescope. You look in and you make some markings on the paper and you look in again. (Clyde Tombaugh)