Robert Winston Animal Quotations

We live longer and healthier lives than ever before. Animal research has improved the treatment of infections, helped with immunisation, improved cancer treatment and had a big impact on managing heart disease, brain disorders, arthritis and transplantation.

Animal rights activists talk about cruelty and torture, some backing their assertions by publishing out-of-date photographs of 'experiments' banned long ago. This is a misrepresentation. The work we do is performed with compassion, care, humanity and humility. I have never seen an animal suffer pain.

My own field, the prevention of genetic disorders in babies, has been possible only because of humane work on animals.

You can now modify the genes of large animals, and the largest animal we are concerned with is the human.

There needs to be clearer communication for the public avout how valuable it [animal testing] is

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.