Clyde Tombaugh

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.

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

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.