Clyde Tombaugh Citas

• Siento mucha simpatía por los jóvenes porque me doy cuenta de lo perturbado que estaba yo. ¿Cómo afrontaría la vida en el futuro? ¿A qué me dedicaría?

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  Sympathy, People, Realizing

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• Young man, I am afraid you are wasting your time. If there were any more planets they would have been found long before this.

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  Ciencia, Hombres, Largo

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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.

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  Thinking, Curiosity, Driving

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• Me interesaban los telescopios y su funcionamiento porque tenía un intenso deseo de ver cómo eran las cosas, así que aprendí a utilizar telescopios y a encontrar cosas en el cielo.

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  Sky, Desire, Use

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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.

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  Jealous, Way, Remember

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

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  Science, Fit, Ancient

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• 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.

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  Drawing, Different, Photograph

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• 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.

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  Nature, Cutting, Animal

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• Cuando estaba en sexto curso, ya podía nombrar de memoria todos los países del mundo.

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  Country, Memories, World

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• A person that much interested in science is going to neglect his social life somewhat, but not completely, because that isn't healthy either. So one has to work it out according to one's own inclinations, how one wants to proportion these things.

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  Science, Healthy, Want

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• You have to have hope. Otherwise, I don't think you could handle it. Of course, you have to have both luck and pluck to make it.

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  Thinking, Luck, Anticipation

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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.

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  Exercise, Kansas, Library

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• 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.

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  Agradable, Pensar, Sería

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

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  Inspirational, Fun, Teenager

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

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  Nature, Granted, Courses

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

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  Keys, Geography, Grades

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• I used to believe there were people on Mars, and of course now we know there aren't. Mars held particular interest. I was curious what kind of beings they would look like.

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  Believe, People, Looks

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• 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.

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  Education, College, Fields

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• Era deprimente, ... Me preocupaba cómo iba a ganarme la vida. No quería quedarme en la granja. No me ofrecía el reto que quería y, sin embargo, sin una educación universitaria, sentía que realmente no tenía suerte.

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  Education, Depressing, College

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• 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.

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  Competition, Fields, Financial

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• ¿Cómo selecciona un pensamiento, por ejemplo, los ingredientes de la tierra para obtener los colores adecuados para la flor? Eso sí que es un gran milagro. Creo que hay un poder supremo detrás de todo esto. Lo veo en la naturaleza.

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  Nature, Flower, Thinking

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• 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.

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  Father, Two, Telescopes

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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.

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  Men, Years, Machines

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• I doubt that the phenomenon was any terrestrial reflection, because... nothing of the kind has ever appeared before or since... I was so unprepared for such a strange sight that I was really petrified with astonishment.

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  Reflection, Sight, Doubt

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