Hans Sloane Quotes
Who was Hans Sloane?
| Born | April 16, 1660 |
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| Died | January 11, 1753 |
| Aged | 92 years old |
Best Quote by Hans Sloane
“The knowledge of Natural-History, being Observation of Matters of Fact, is more certain than most others, and in my slender Opinion, less subject to Mistakes than Reasonings, Hypotheses, and Deductions are; ... These are things we are sure of, so far as our Senses are not fallible; and which, in probability, have been ever since the Creation, and will remain to the End of the World, in the same Condition we now find them.”
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