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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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
You wonder about it and wonder how will I make an instrument that can handle this kind of a problem.
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Although my early equipment was very modest, later I made my own and they were more powerful.
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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.
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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.
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You have to have hope. Otherwise, I don't think you could handle it. Of course, you have to have both luck and pluck to make it.
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