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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).
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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.
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