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

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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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Topics: Because Desire Find Had How Intense Interested Learned Like Looked See Sky Things Use Way Worked

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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.

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The planets are never the same twice, they're always different, so they could compare the markings I had drawn with their current photographs and they knew that I was drawing what I was really seeing and it wasn't copied from somewhere.

~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

Topics: About Anything Being Being Famous Concepts Curiosity Driving Famous Fascinated Interested Involved Just Like Me Thing Think Universe I Think

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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.

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It was depressing, very depressing. I worried about how I would make a living. I didn't want to stay on the farm. It didn't offer the challenge I wanted and yet, without a college education, I felt that I was really out of luck.

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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

Topics: Another Better Check Consistent Date Final Image Images Other Place Plate Plates Proof Right Right Place See Third Thought Which Would

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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.

~Clyde Tombaugh

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We were suddenly faced with the necessity of training a lot of young men in the art of navigation.

~Clyde Tombaugh

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Scientist

Born: February 4th, 1906

Died: January 17th, 1997

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