Physiological experiment on animals is justifiable for…

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

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

— Charles Darwin

A good physiological experiment like a good physical one requires that it should present anywhere, at any time, under identical conditions, the same certain…

— Anonymous

“I used to be endlessly troubled by meat-eating people who were uneasy with hunters and hunting. ... How can someone suggest that paying for…

— Steven Rinella

“Animals are not ours to Eat. Animals are not ours to Wear. Animals are not ours to Experiment On. Animals are not ours to…

— Peta

“I dislike this whole business of experimentation on animals, unless there's some very good and altogether exceptional reason to this very case. The thing…

— Richard Adams

Typically, defenders of experiments on animals do not deny that animals suffer. They cannot deny the animals' suffering, because they need to stress the…

— Peter Singer

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

— Sam Simon

I was asked by the National Institute of Health to be their scientific discussant on the effects of these drug [Ritalin] at a big…

— Peter Breggin

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

— Richard Wagner

The patterns of activity of neurons in sensory areas can be altered by patterns of attention. Experience coupled with attention leads to physical changes…

— Michael Merzenich

The powers, aspirations, and mission of man are such as to raise the study of his origin and nature, inevitably and by the very…

— Richard Owen

Perhaps the most significant thing a person can know about himself is to understand his own system of values. Almost every thing we do…

— Jacque Fresco

This substance, which is manifold in its forms and protean in its transformations, has, in its state of living matter, one physiological name which…

— Asa Gray

My task was to show the psychologists that it is possible to apply physiological knowledge to the phenomena of psychical life.

— Ivan Sechenov