Robert Barany Quotes

But I have vertigo... I lose my equilibrium easily. I can lean out to look at something and just keep leaning and not realize I'm about to fall.

I'm trying to adapt - they say you have to adapt to vertigo.

I have been battling vertigo for a long time. It's something that I deal with on a daily basis.

Experiments with animals have long been handicapped by our anthropocentric attitude: We often test them in ways that work fine with humans but not so well with other species.

Vertigo, it was thought at the time, could only be caused by a disease of the cerebellum. He observed this kind of patient for years and saw absolutely no symptoms of brain disease.

The investigations also proved that there were many cases of spontaneous deviation, i.e. cases where there had been no stimulation of the semi-circular canal apparatus.

No one likes doing primate experiments, but some research can only be done on monkeys.

Putting affects the nerves more than anything. I would actually get nauseated over three-footers.

I've got a weird balance problem as a human being, like I'm dizzy, and it's something to do with that.

Our success was mainly due to the fact that we stimulated the nerves of animals that easily stood on their own feet and were not subjected to any painful stimulus either during or immediately before stimulation of their nerves.

Most of the time, those who use animals in experiments justify that use by pointing to alleged benefits to human and animal health and the supposed necessity of using animals to obtain those benefits.

It gives me vertigo to watch TV dramas.

I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still.

Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.

I don't like rides. I take everything in life quite literally, and so I genuinely feel terrified on rides and liable to vomit at any moment, and I hate to vomit even more than I fear rides.

I have vertigo. Vertigo makes it feel like the floor is pitching up and down. Things seem to be spinning. It's like standing on the deck of a ship in really high seas.

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

The vertigo is a difficult thing: it just comes and goes whenever it pleases. I wasn't expecting it. I've had it before, and there have been years between stretches, and unfortunately it happened at the U.S. Open, and that knocked me off my feet.

I can't handle rollercoasters. I have no control of it. It gets to me.

To be honest, I'm scared to death of rollercoaster rides.

I'm a bad traveller because I suffer from travel sickness.

I'm constitutionally incapable of working on planes or trains, and airports are definitely out.

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

There's absolutely nothing irrational about me; insane, yes, irrational, no. But my dumbest fear would be spinning in the magic tea cups. Who the hell wants to pay to spin around like a bent yoyo for laughs?

How many people do you know who have thrown up on the Scrambler or a carnival ride? A lot of people, is the answer.