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Clyde Tombaugh
Clyde Tombaugh
American Scientist
Born: Feb 4, 1906
Died: Jan 17, 1997
Interested Life Nature Think You Young
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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
Life Jealous Jealousy Myself Remember Way Along Particularly Because Got Get Anybody Being Figured Deserve Ever
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
Life Future People Young Living Sympathy Would Disturbed Because Deal How Lot Young People Realize
By the time I was in sixth grade I could bound every country in the world from memory. Clyde Tombaugh
Time Memory World Country Every Could Bound Grade Sixth By The Time
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. Clyde Tombaugh
Sky Way Find See Had Like Looked Learned Because How Intense Intense Desire Interested Worked Use Things Desire
When I was in the fourth grade, I became intensely interested in geography and I learned it well. Clyde Tombaugh
Well Learned Became Geography Grade Intensely Interested Fourth
I guess the two things I was most interested in were telescopes and steam engines. My father was an engineer on a threshing rig steam engine and I loved the machinery. Clyde Tombaugh
Engineer Father Guess Machinery Steam Most Were Loved Interested Engine Engines Rig Things Two
Although my early equipment was very modest, later I made my own and they were more powerful. Clyde Tombaugh
Made Own Later My Own More Powerful Although Equipment Were Very Modest Early
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. Clyde Tombaugh
You Paper Telescope Pencil Drawing Some Look Make Hand Again Board Your
Can you imagine young people nowadays making a study of trigonometry for the fun of it? Well I did. Clyde Tombaugh
You People Young Nowadays Teen Study Well Making Did Young People Fun Imagine
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. Clyde Tombaugh
Education Hope College Tough Discouraged Field Would See College Education Some Because Very Get Getting Wanted Realized Much
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
Work You Competition Financial Sometimes Field Others Pretty Because Gets Fierce Your Grants Compete Competing Funds
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
Library Entertainment Looking Young Out TV Kinds Had Arithmetic Exercises Sticks Always Were Western Public Kansas Public Library Miles Used Radio Things

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