Animal Quote by Ivan Pavlov

Human beings thought with their hands. It was their hands that were the answer of curiosity, that felt and pinched and turned and lifted…

— Isaac Asimov

“Seeking pleasure and avoiding pain are two key motivators in all species. When we feel discomfort, we seek to escape the uncomfortable sensation.”

— Nir Eyal

...the nervous systems of other animals were not artificially constructed - as a robot might be artificially constructed - to mimic the pain behavior…

— Peter Singer

Humans - who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals - have had an understandable penchant for pretending animals do not feel pain.

— Carl Sagan

Humans — who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals — have had an understandable penchant for pretending animals do not feel pain.…

— Carl Sagan

Our species in general had grown accustomed to pain and adversity through millennia of struggle . . . we were only recently evolving the…

— Gay Hendricks

We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain.

— Saint Augustine

Never believe that animals suffer less than humans. Pain is the same for them that it is for us. Even worse, because they cannot…

— Anonymous

Pavlov's findings were that some animals learned more quickly if rewarded (by affection, by food, by stroking) each time they showed the right response,…

— Joost Meerloo

I like to walk, touch living Mother Earth—bare feet best, and thrill every step. Used to envy happy reptiles that had advantage of so…

— John Muir

The human animal originally came from out-of-doors. When spring begins to move in his bones, he just must get out again. Moreover, as civilization,…

— Herbert Hoover

In however complex a manner this feeling may have originated, as it is one of high importance to all those animals which aid and…

— Charles Darwin