J. M. Coetzee Quotes:
Ocupation: Novelist
Life: b. February 9, 1940
Birthday: February 9
...the program of scientific experimentation that leads you to conclude that animals are imbeciles is profoundly anthropocentric. It values being able to find your way out of a sterile maze, ignoring the fact that if the researcher who designed the maze were to be parachuted into the jungles of Borneo, he or she would be dead of starvation in a week...If I as a human being were told that the standards by which animals are being measured in these experiments are human standards, I would be insulted.
source: J M Coetzee (2015). “Elizabeth Costello”, p.108, Random House
topic: Animal, Mazes, Would Be, Borneo
