Experiments On Animals Quotes:

Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Character, Animal, Evil, Social Evils, Animal Testing

An animal experiment cannot be justifiable unless the experiment is so important that the use of a brain-damaged human would be justifiable.

- Peter Singer

topic: Animal, Brain, Important, Animal Testing, Experiments On Animals

It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.

- Henrik Ibsen

topic: Fun, Animal, Political, Experiments On Animals

It seems to me of great importance to teach children respect for life.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

topic: Respect, Children, Importance, Kindness To Animals, Animal Testing

I was asked by the National Institute of Health to be their scientific discussant on the effects of these drug [Ritalin] at a big conference they held. Beforehand, I reviewed all of the important literature on the issue. Even with experiments on animals. When they're given these drugs they stop playing; they stop being curious; they stop socializing; they stop trying to escape. We make good caged animals with these drugs. And we make good caged kids by knocking their spontaneity out of them. And, Michael, the other thing is that these drugs enforce obsessive behavior.

- Peter Breggin

source: "The Ritalin Racketeers and Their Chemical Lobotomies – Part I". Interview With Michael Savage, www.whale.to. March 29, 2000.

topic: Kids, Animal, Issues, Socializing, Caged Animal

You ask about my opinion on vivisection. I quite agree that it is justifiable for real investigations on physiology; but not for mere damnable and detestable curiosity.

- Charles Darwin

source: "Life and Letters of Charles Darwin: the Evolution".

topic: Experiments On Animals, Physiological

I want medical experiments on animals stopped. They don't do anything, and they don't work,

- Sam Simon

source: "Terminally Ill 'Simpsons' Co-Creator Vows to Give Away Fortune". Interview with Gary Baum, www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 25, 2013.

topic: Animal, Want, Medical, Experiments On Animals

Typically, defenders of experiments on animals do not deny that animals suffer. They cannot deny the animals' suffering, because they need to stress the similarities between humans and other animals in order to claim that their experiments may have some relevance for human purposes. The experimenter who forces rats to choose between starvation and electric shock to see if they develop ulcers (which they do) does so because the rat has a nervous system very similar to a human being's, and presumably feels an electric shock in a similar way.

- Peter Singer

topic: Stress, Animal, Order, Ulcers, Electric Shock

Those who experiment on animals should never be able to quiet their own conscience by telling themselves that these cruelties have a worthy aim.

- Albert Schweitzer

topic: Animal, Able, Quiet, Experiments On Animals

If experiments on animals were abandoned on grounds of compassion, mankind would have made a fundamental advance.

- Richard Wagner

topic: Compassion, Animal, Fundamentals, Experiments On Animals