Sam Kean Quotes

When I hear of anyone walking into a lab and walking out with animals, my heart sings.

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

Cats have nine lives. Makes them ideal for experimentation.

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.

I have no disagreement with the aims of anti-vivisectionists.

It is an incontrovertible fact that if we want to make progress in basic areas of medicine and biology, we are going to have to use animals.

It is time my colleagues got real. All British universities doing worthwhile research use animals, and, instead of hiding, they should be boasting of their achievements.

On occasion, we at 'MythBusters' come across stories we want to test that require using a pig carcass to simulate human physiology.

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

Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.

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

Through my work with PETA, I have learned a great deal about chimpanzee behavior and the plight of chimpanzees imprisoned in laboratories.

Everyone agrees that animals should not be exposed to unnecessary pain. But neither should scientists be hamstrung by the requirement to use anesthesia in every animal experiment that might cause pain.

Scientists should not do animal testing if there is any alternative, but subject to that, I would support it on grounds of the medical benefits.

Biological knowledge is doubling every five years.

The history of using mice to stand in for humans in medical experiments is replete with failures.

Physiological experiment on animals is justifiable for real investigation, but not for mere damnable and detestable curiosity.

Scientific men are under definite obligation to experiment upon animals so far as that is the alternative to random and possibly harmful experimentation upon human beings, and so far as such experimentation is a means of saving human life and of increasing human vigor and efficiency.

Those who experiment on animals should never be able to quiet their own conscience by telling themselves that these cruelties have a worthy aim.

Of all the black crimes that humanity is committing against the great Creation, vivisection is the blackest.

Vivisection is wrong because it is an abuse of man's power over the helpless, involving pain and suffering. The name for this is cruelty, and cruelty is immoral, no matter what the reason for its introduction.

I wish we all would get up and go into the labs and take the animals out or burn them down.

vivisection is not the same thing as scientific progress. There is such a thing as scientific progress. But this wholesale dedication of scientists to vivisection, which is the easy and cheap way, actually prevents them from scientific progress, for true progress is difficult and requires genius and imagination in its devoted workers.

Every year tens of thousands of animals suffer and die in laboratory tests of cosmetics and household products...despite the fact that the test results do not help prevent or treat accidental or purposeful misuse of the products. Please join me in using your voice for those whose cries are forever sealed behind the laboratory doors.

But now all the natural secrets have been exposed, and it is likely that the turtles have been sold to laboratory scientists who want to remove their shells so that they can wire electrodes to the turtles' skin in order to monitor their increasing terror at the loss of their shells.