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When I was in the fourth grade, I became intensely interested in geography and I learned it well.

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

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

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

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.

You have to have hope. Otherwise, I don't think you could handle it. Of course, you have to have both luck and pluck to make it.

You wonder about it and wonder how will I make an instrument that can handle this kind of a problem.

We were suddenly faced with the necessity of training a lot of young men in the art of navigation.

Although my early equipment was very modest, later I made my own and they were more powerful.