Ascertained Quotes

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To modern educated people, it seems obvious that matters of fact are to be ascertained by observation, not by consulting ancient authorities. But this is… — Bertrand Russell
Two things, well considered, would prevent many quarrels: first, to have it well ascertained whether we are not disputing about terms, rather than things; and,… — Charles Caleb Colton
GRAVITATION, n. The tendency of all bodies to approach one another with a strength proportioned to the quantity of matter they contain-the quantity of matter… — Ambrose Bierce
Because of their very nature, science and logical thinking can never decide what is possible or impossible. Their only function is to explain what has… — Rudolf Steiner
Examine from time to time what are the dominant passions of your soul, and having ascertained this, mold your life, so that in thought, word,… — Saint Francis de Sales
The general rule of law is, that the noblest of human productions knowledge, truths ascertained, conceptions and ideas become, after voluntary communication to others, free… — Louis D. Brandeis
Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth. — Thomas Huxley
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. — James Madison
What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts. — George Bernard Shaw
We often dream about people from whom we receive a letter by the next post. I have ascertained on several occasions that at the moment… — Carl Jung
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… — Asa Gray
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… — Asa Gray
Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained. — Vladimir Nabokov
Ralph, we will aeulostbly make the final report public. With respect to interim reports, we haven't yet ascertained that. But what we will have is… — Hengki

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