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You wonder about it and wonder how will I make an instrument that can handle this kind of a problem.

~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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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

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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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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

Topics: Behind Colors Does Example Flower For Example Get Great How Ingredients Miracle Nature Now Power Right See Select Soil Supreme Think I Think I See

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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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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

Topics: Always Arithmetic Entertainment Exercises Had Kansas Kinds Library Looking Miles Out Public Public Library Radio Sticks Things Tv Used Were Western Young Ahead

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Scientist

Born: February 4th, 1906

Died: January 17th, 1997

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