Accepting Quote by Stanley Milgram

most people prefer to carry out the kinds of experiments that allow the scientist to feel that he is in full control of the…

— Margaret Mead

“Later in life, I learnt that many things one may require have to be weighed against one's dignity, which can be an insuperable barrier…

— Anthony Powell

When I look back on it, I think, "Why didn't you stop the cruelty earlier?" To stand back was contrary to my upbringing and…

— Philip Zimbardo

When, as we must often do, we fear science, we really fear ourselves. Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge.

— John Charles Polanyi

“We must therefore glean up our experiments in this science from a cautious observation of human life, and take them as they appear in…

— David Hume

After we had conducted thousands of experiments on a certain project without solving the problem, one of my associates, after we had conducted the…

— Thomas A. Edison

But we were made to believe and not allowed to think. We were told to obey, rather than to experiment and investigate.

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Animal experimentation is the blackest of all the black crimes that a man is at present committing... We should be able to refuse to…

— Mahatma Gandhi

The problem with experiments has always been that human beings make the decisions on whether or not the animals have benefitted from the treatment.

— James Randi

I often say in my speeches, I say, 'It's rare in life that you get a controlled scientific experiment.' 'Cause you can't do controlled…

— Jerrold Nadler

I think that, with anything creative, you should have the freedom to experiment, and that experimentation means not feeling totally responsible for how other…

— Conor Oberst