Occupation: Researcher Birth: August 26, 1906 Death: March 3, 1993
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….
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 ….
A scientist who is also a human being cannot rest while knowledge which might be used to reduce suffering rests on the shelf..
The work on [polio] prevention was long delayed by... misleading experimental models of the disease in monkeys.
Giving cancer to laboratory animals has not and will not help us to understand the disease or to treat those persons suffering from it..
Without animal research, polio would still be claiming thousands of lives each year..