Henry Jacob Bigelow: Quotes about science

Henry Jacob Bigelow was American surgeon. Explore interesting quotes on science.

Henry Jacob Bigelow: 14 quotes0 likes

“Anti-cruelty societies should be encouraged. The progress of science has suffered little by their existence, and humanity has gained much.”

Henry Jacob Bigelow

Source: Surgical Anaesthesia (1894), p. 372

“Watch the students at a vivisection. It is the blood and suffering, not the science, that rivet their breathless attention. If hospital service makes young students less tender of suffering, vivisection deadens their humanity, and begets indifference to it.”

Henry Jacob Bigelow

Source: Surgical Anaesthesia (1894), p. 310

“There will come a time when the world will look back to modern vivisection in the name of science as they now do to burning at the stake in the name of religion.”

Henry Jacob Bigelow

Source: Surgical Anaesthesia (1894), p. 370