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

- 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 li…

- 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

I vowed never again to experiment with such sensitive creatures.

- 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 th…

- Christiaan Barnard

The individual is the brain, not the heart.

- Christiaan Barnard

I had bought two male chimps from a primate colony in Holland. They lived next to each other in separate cages for several months before I used one a…

- 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 …

- Christiaan Barnard

Suffering isn't ennobling, recovery is.

- Christiaan Barnard