Quote by Clyde Tombaugh
Can you imagine young people nowadays making a study of trigonomet

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

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I realized that I would have some very tough sledding, and I was very discouraged because I didnt see much hope of getting into the field I wanted to get into with no college education. – Clyde Tombaugh

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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 think the driving thing was curiosity about the universe. That fascinated me. I didnt think anything about being famous or anything like that, I was just interested in the concepts involved. – Clyde Tombaugh

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