"If experiments on animals were abandoned on..." - Quote by Richard Wagner
If experiments on animals were abandoned on grounds of compassion, mankind would have made a fundamental advance.
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“I can't distract myself enough here, for sketches to a new opera are constantly buzzing around in my head, to the extent that I need all my strength to wrest myself from them.”
“Even if I know I shall never change the masses, never transform anything permanent, all I ask is that the good things also have their place, their refuge.”
“The long-term vision is to replace, repair and regenerate failing tissues and organs with the materials of tissues and organs. It's still 'out there,' but it's possible to put together a grant proposal now that doesn't sound completely crazy.”
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“When I find a ladybug I ask the butler to take it outside instead of killing it.”
“Hail to the man who went through life always helping others, knowing no fear, and to whom aggressiveness and resentment are alien. Such is the stuff of which the great moral leaders are made.”
“When they have really learned to love their neighbours as themselves, they will be allowed to love themselves as their neighbours.”