We were suddenly faced with the necessity of training a lot of young men in the art of navigation.
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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
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
By the time I was in sixth grade I could bound every country in the world from memory.
Clyde Tombaugh
You have to compete with others in the field. Sometimes the competition gets pretty fierce because you're competing for funds or grants to do your work, the financial work.
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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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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
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