#ascertain

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. ↗

— Asa Gray

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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. ↗

— Asa Gray

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When I consider what it was that moved me to join the Communist Party, I have to cast my mind back for more than a quarter of a century to try and ascertain what precisely my motives at that time were. ↗

— Bram Fischer

#back #cast #century #communist #communist party

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

— Erich Leinsdorf

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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

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

— Adam Clarke

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We may ascertain the worth of the human race, since for its sake God's Only-begotten Son became man, and thereby ennobled the nature that he took upon him. ↗

— Thomas Sydenham

#became #ennobled #god #him #human

Present law has a process to ascertain whether or not a patient is in a persistent vegetative state, and it should not matter what politicians think. ↗

— Bobby Scott

#law #matter #patient #persistent #politicians

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

— Vladimir Nabokov

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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. ↗

— Fritz Zwicky

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