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 lo…

- Clyde Tombaugh

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

- Clyde Tombaugh

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

- Clyde Tombaugh

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 w…

- Clyde Tombaugh

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 d…

- Clyde Tombaugh

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 the…

- Clyde Tombaugh

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

- Clyde Tombaugh

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 in…

- Clyde Tombaugh

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 telesc…

- Clyde Tombaugh