10+ Christiaan Barnard Quotes And Sayings

Following is our list of the best Christiaan Barnard quotes and sayings.

On Saturday, I was a surgeon in South Africa, very little known. On Monday, I was world renowned. — Christiaan Barnard

The prime goal is to alleviate suffering, and not to prolong life. And if your treatment does not alleviate suffering, but only prolongs life, that treatment should be stopped. — Christiaan Barnard

I believe often that death is good medical treatment because it can achieve what all the medical advances and technology cannot achieve today, and that is stop the suffering of the patient. — Christiaan Barnard

Suffering isn't ennobling, recovery is. — Christiaan Barnard

I don't believe medical discoveries are doing much to advance human life. As fast as we create ways to extend it we are inventing ways to shorten it. — Christiaan Barnard

It is infinitely better to transplant a heart than to bury it to be devoured by worms. — Christiaan Barnard

If the poor overweight jogger only knew how far he had to run to work off the calories in a crust of bread he might find it better in terms of pound per mile to go to a massage parlor. — Christiaan Barnard

I vowed never again to experiment with such sensitive creatures. — Christiaan Barnard

The individual is the brain, not the heart. — Christiaan Barnard

For a dying man it is not a difficult decision [to agree to become the world's first heart transplant] ... because he knows he is at the end. If a lion chases you to the bank of a river filled with crocodiles, you will leap into the water convinced you have a chance to swim to the other side. But you would not accept such odds if there were no lion. — Christiaan Barnard