What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts. George Bernard Shaw
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
Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth. Thomas Huxley
Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained. Vladimir Nabokov
Whether the family of the Clarkes were of Norman extraction cannot be easily ascertained. Adam Clarke