Clyde Tombaugh Quotes

Nothing should be taken for granted, even if everybody believes it.

I've always assumed he'd be around to be, you know, yelled at and taken for granted. And of course I was wrong. Nobody's going to put up with that forever.

What we should admire is the acute fulfillment of the unspoken assumptions, the smooth harmony of the whole activity, which only become evident in the final success.

Our future will be shaped by the assumptions we make about who we are and what we can be.

What can be explained by the assumption of fewer things is vainly explained by the assumption of more things.

People have a preconceived notion about who I am and it's interesting. It's like picking who you want to win for the Oscars and not seeing the movie.

Just as we tend to assume that the world is as we see it, we naively suppose that people are as we imagine them to be.

If others tell us something we make assumptions, and if they don't tell us something we make assumptions to fulfill our need to know and to replace the need to communicate. Even if we hear something and we don't understand we make assumptions about what it means and then believe the assumptions. We make all sorts of assumptions because we don't have the courage to ask questions.

I suppose one gets to know men quickest by the things they take for granted.

Experience arises together with theoretical assumptions not before them, and an experience without theory is just as incomprehensible as is (allegedly) a theory without experience.

Assumptions are dangerous things. I like facts a lot better.

It often happens that things are other than what they seem, and you can get yourself into trouble by jumping to conclusions.

One thing that irritates me is when people kind of make assumptions.

It is always better to ask then to make an assumption.

How was I to know? ... You didn't say anything.""I said lots of things," he corrected gently. "You just didn't hear them.

Assumption Theory: The only safe assumption in life is that the person who assures you that everything is all right is all wrong.

They never discussed it, but both came to understand it as a promise: he would always make sure there was a place for her. She would always be able to say, Someone is coming. I am not alone.

It is the things we think we know - because they are so elementary or because they surround us - that often present the greatest difficulties when we are actually challenged to explain them.

You can have examples of reasons to hate people, but if you analyze those reasons it's like, Oh, I'm hating that person based on one thing they did, but I don't actually know them well enough to hate them.

Don't make assumptions.

That's what the world is like: people talk as if they knew everything, but ifyou dare to ask a question, they don't know anything.

Until we know the assumptions in which we are drenched, we cannot know ourselves.

Postulates are based on assumption and adhered to by faith. Nothing in the Universe can shake them.

There is never a specific theme or anything I have interest in. Really, I make decisions based on decisions that are made by other people and whatever is presented to me, and I do it on a first come, first serve basis, and go from there.