Ascertained Quotes

Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained.

Whether the family of the Clarkes were of Norman extraction cannot be easily ascertained.

The Congressman ascertained that the consulate in Havana had numbers to feed the pigs.

What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.

Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth.

There is a class, moreover, by whom all these scientific theories, and more are held as ascertained facts, and as the basis of philosophical inferences which strike at the root of theistic beliefs.

Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.

But it was soon ascertained that this quaternary matter of the animal body was chemically the same in the plant, was elaborated there, and only appropriated by the animal.

I soon became convinced... that all the theorizing would be empty brain exercise and therefore a waste of time unless one first ascertained what the population of the universe really consists of.