Claude Bernard , the `` prince of vivisectors '' and the father of physiology famously wrote in 1865 that `` the science of life is a superb and dazzlingly ( brightly ) lighted hall which may be reached only by passing through a long and ghastly kitchen '' . Claude Bernard , known as the `` prince of vivisectors '' and the father of physiologyâ '' whose wife , Marie FranÃ oise Martin , founded the first anti-vivisection society in France in 1883 â '' famously wrote in 1865 that `` the science of life is a superb and dazzlingly lighted hall which may be reached only by passing through a long and ghastly kitchen '' .