Thumbnail of Frances Power Cobbe
Frances Power Cobbe
(4 Dec 1822 - 5 Apr 1904)

Irish writer who was a social reformer, feminist and ardent anti-vivisectionist. In 1875, founded the world's first organization against animal experiments, the Victoria Street Society for the Protection of Animals Liable to Vivisection. She later founded, in 1898, the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection (BUAV).

Science Quotes by Frances Power Cobbe (1)

Science is but a mere heap of facts, not a golden chain of truths, if we refuse to link it to the throne of God.
— Frances Power Cobbe
The Peak in Darien: an octave of essays (1882), 50-51.
See also:  |  Fact (139)  |  Science And Religion (76)  |  Truth (241)


back arrow
Custom search within only our quotations pages:
Sitewide search within all Today In Science History pages:

Visit our Science and Scientist Quotations index for more Science Quotes from archaeologists, biologists, chemists, geologists, inventors and inventions, mathematicians, physicists, pioneers in medicine, science events and technology.

Names index: | A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z |

Categories index: | A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z |



Site Navigation



If you find this site useful, please add a link from your site.


Today in Science History
Quotations
by scientists, inventors, on science and more.
- Go To Index -





8,510,470


Test Link - Please Ignore








Locations of visitors to this page