Can you imagine young people nowadays making a study of trigonometry for the fun of it? Well I did.

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

I guess they just took it for granted that that was what I was interested in and let nature take its course.

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.

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

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.

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.