- Curious
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
What you do is, you have your drawing board and a pencil in hand at the telescope. You look in and you make some markings on the paper and you look in again.
- Drawing
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Can you imagine young people nowadays making a study of trigonometry for the fun of it? Well I did.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
I thought I'd better check this third plate, which is another date, see if there's an image there in the right place that would be consistent with the images on the other plates. That was the final proof.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Fierce
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
We were suddenly faced with the necessity of training a lot of young men in the art of navigation.
- Nov 07, 2020
You wonder about it and wonder how will I make an instrument that can handle this kind of a problem.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I shed many a tear when the steam engines went out of style on the railroads. I'd like to seem them come back, but I realize the diesels are more efficient.
- Bible
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- Nov 07, 2020
Unfortunately, a lot of the concepts in the Bible are based on ancient mythology that doesn't fit the findings of science.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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?
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Interested
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was in the fourth grade, I became intensely interested in geography and I learned it well.
- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020
By the time I was in sixth grade I could bound every country in the world from memory.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
I guess they just took it for granted that that was what I was interested in and let nature take its course.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020