“It was depressing, very depressing. I worried about how I would make a...” — Clyde Tombaugh Quote

“It was depressing, very depressing. I worried about how I would make a living. I didn't want to stay on the farm. It didn't offer the challenge I wanted and yet, without a college education, I felt that I was really out of luck.”

“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.”

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

“I think the skyrocketing cost of a college education has placed it in the sphere of being a luxury-priced necessity.”

“As far as I can see, about the only thing I've missed is a college education.”

“College education is the great Filipino dream. But in a world of rapid technological change, getting a job or keeping it depends as much on how well one reasons as how well one uses his hands.”