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On the careful work of confirming what's actually true.

One quote argues that once a young person's talent is ascertained, public support should follow to fund their education. Another applies the same careful verb to science, warning against theorizing before first ascertaining basic facts about the population being studied, a theme close to our Brain collection.

Last Updated on May 30, 2021

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Nov 07, 2020

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.

Quotes by James Madison

Exercise
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Nov 07, 2020

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.

Quotes by Fritz Zwicky

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Nov 07, 2020

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

Quotes by Erich Leinsdorf

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Nov 07, 2020

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.

Quotes by Asa Gray

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Nov 07, 2020

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.

Quotes by Asa Gray

There's also a more skeptical note about scientific theories being treated as ascertained facts when they may really just be philosophical assumptions. Continue with our Class page.

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