Phrase by '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.

Author: Clyde Tombaugh - American Scientist
  Me , Think , Curiosity , Driving


I think there's a supreme power behind the whole thing, an intelligence. Look at all of the instincts of nature, both animals and plants, the very ingenious ways they survive. If you cut yourself, you don't have to think about it.

Author: Clyde Tombaugh - American Scientist
  You , Yourself , Nature , Power


I used to think about how nice it would be to visit the planets. Of course, I didn't expect to see in my lifetime what has happened. I knew it would happen some day, but it came along faster than I at first thought.

Author: Clyde Tombaugh - American Scientist
  Day , Space , Thought , Nice


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.

Author: Clyde Tombaugh - American Scientist
  Always , Never , Seeing , Drawing


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

Author: Clyde Tombaugh - American Scientist
  You , People , Fun , Teen


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.

Author: Clyde Tombaugh - American Scientist
  See , Better , Thought , Place


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

Author: Clyde Tombaugh - American Scientist
  Well , Interested , Geography , Learned


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

Author: Clyde Tombaugh - American Scientist
  Time , World , Memory , Country


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

Author: Clyde Tombaugh - American Scientist
  Just , Nature , Guess , Take


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.

Author: Clyde Tombaugh - American Scientist
  Two , Father , Things , Loved


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