Occupation: Researcher Birth: August 26, 1906 Death: March 3, 1993
Without animal research, polio would still be claiming thousands of lives each year..
Giving cancer to laboratory animals has not and will not help us to understand the disease or to treat those persons suffering from it..
My own experience of over 60 years in biomedical research amply demonstrated that without the use of animals and of human beings, it would have been ….
The work on [polio] prevention was long delayed by... misleading experimental models of the disease in monkeys.
I have studied the effects of our new lots of polio vaccine in 100 adult volunteers and during the next few days shall give it to my wife and 2 child….
A scientist who is also a human being cannot rest while knowledge which might be used to reduce suffering rests on the shelf..