"We need a boundless ethic, one which will include the animals, too. Until he extends the circle of his compassions to all living things, man will not himself find peace." - Dr. Albert Schweitzer
"During my medical education... I found vivisection horrible, barbarous and above all unnecessary." - Carl Jung, MD
"I abhor vivisection. It should at least be curbed. Better it should be abolished. I know of no achievement through vivisection, no scientific discovery that could not have been obtained without such barbarism and cruelty. The whole thing is evil." - Charles Mayo, MD, founder of the Mayo Clinic
"Atrocities are not less atrocities when they occur in laboratories and are called medical research." - George Bernard Shaw
"We cannot solve the problems we have created with the same thinking that created them." - Albert Einstein
"The history of cancer research has been a history of curing cancer in the mouse... We have cured mice of cancer for decades -- and it simply didn't work in humans." - Dr. Richard Klausner, Director of the National Cancer Institute
"Ask the experimenters why they experiment on animals, and the answer is Because the animals are like us... Ask the experimenters why it is morally O.K. to experiment on animals, and the answer is: ..Because the animals are not like us... Animal experimentation rests on a logical contradiction." - Professor
Charles R. Magel (1980)
"Giving cancer to laboratory animals has not and will not help us to understand the disease or to treat those persons suffering from it." - Albert Sabin, MD (1986), developer of the live-virus polio vaccine Sabin (1906 - 1993) was a physician and microbiologist who developed a live-virus polio vaccine that helped curb the spread of the then deadly disease.
"We suffer from different diseases and we respond in different ways to drugs. Using animals to ..try out.. products intended for humans is at best useless and at worst ... dangerously isleading." - Vernon Coleman, MD, to the
International Scientific Conference, Paris, (1989)
"At present it is a rare person that emerges from medical training with his or her humanity intact." - Journal of the American Medical Association, Vol. 261, p. 2011, (1989)
"It [referring to dog labs] did more to damage my identity as a physician than anything else. I learned nothing physiological. I learned that life is cheap, and that misery can be ignored." - Murry Cohen, MD, (1990s) Cohen is founding co-chair of the Medical Research Modernization Committee.
He has authored numerous books, articles, chapters and letters on animal experimentation, including "Of Pigs, Primates, and Plagues," a scientific critique
of xenotransplantation.
"By and large students are taught that it is ethically acceptable to
perpetrate, in the name of science, what from the point of view of the animals would
certainly qualify as torture. By the time [the students] arrive in the labs they have been programmed to accept the suffering around them." - Jane Goodall, PhD, Through a Window - My 30 Years With the Chimpanzees in Gombe (1990)