Top 7 Christiaan Barnard Quotes (2025 Update)

Christiaan Barnard Quote: “The individual is the brain, not the heart.”

1. “The individual is the brain, not the heart.”

2. “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

3. “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

4. “It is infinitely better to transplant a heart than to bury it to be devoured by worms.”

— Christiaan Barnard

5. “Suffering isn’t ennobling, recovery is.”

— Christiaan Barnard

6. “I vowed never again to experiment with such sensitive creatures.”

— Christiaan Barnard

7. “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

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