Clyde Tombaugh Quotes

Let us hear the suspicions. I will look after the proofs.

There can be theory but, you know, the problem is you've got to be able to test it. So theories are one thing, testing is another.

Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.

I worked every day there, so I knew all the details. But I needed only some proof. So the proof was photos.

If you think about it, the historian's task is like that of the detective.

You can theorize as much as you want about what you think you're seeing, but until you get out there and dig, you can't tell exactly what it is.

You could look it up.

Supposing is good, but finding out is better.

Scientific inquiry starts with observation. The more one can see, the more one can investigate.

I believe in research you cannot do enough research; believability comes out of what's real.

If you judge, investigate.

A proof is a proof. What kind of a proof? It's a proof. A proof is a proof. And when you have a good proof, it's because it's proven.

'UFO's' attitude toward the subject is very similar to mine. It's not an advocacy; its philosophy is more 'I want to believe this, but I want it proved.'

Science is always inquiring.

Just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts.

Skeptics question the validity of a particular claim by calling for evidence to prove or disprove it.

Enough research will tend to support your conclusions.

Any fact is better established by two or three good testimonies than by a thousand arguments.

What is required of a working hypothesis is a fine capacity for discrimination.

Argument is conclusive, but it does not remove doubt, so that the mind may rest in the sure knowledge of the truth, unless it finds it by the method of experiment.

I have a rule in research: The third time you hear something, it's generally true.

All I'm armed with is research.

Science is curiosity, testing and experimenting.

A proof tells us where to concentrate our doubts.

We must reinforce argument with results.