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. ”

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. ”

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? ”

Unfortunately, a lot of the concepts in the Bible are based on ancient mythology that doesn't fit the findings of science. ”

Can you imagine young people nowadays making a study of trigonometry for the fun of it? Well I did. ”

When I was in the fourth grade, I became intensely interested in geography and I learned it well. ”

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. ”

I guess they just took it for granted that that was what I was interested in and let nature take its course. ”

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

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. ”