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Gerald Buckberg Quotes

1935–2018 United States

Gerald Buckberg (September 29, 1935 - September 20, 2018) was a Distinguished Professor of Surgery, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. His research interests initially centered in the area of myocardial protection and led to the introduction of blood cardioplegia, which is currently used by over 85% of surgeons in the United States and 75% of surgeons worldwide for adult and pediatric heart operations.

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A dilemma that I see is that ignorant people are unknowledgable, but can learn. Arrogant people are knowledgeable but unable to be taught.

Conclusive answers are not gained by adhering to past beliefs or by assuming that what seems logical is valid. The answer is only revealed through investigation.

Solving the Mysteries of Heart Disease (2018)

Interacting spiral galaxies NGC 5257 & NGC 5258, of similar mass and size, Hubble Space Telescope.

In managing heart failure in dilated hearts, we must recognize its cause is flawed heart anatomy... normality is restored after rebuilding the natural cardiac form.

Solving the Mysteries of Heart Disease (2018)

Pettgrew's Design in Nature (1908): Fig 3-Interior plaster cast Heart Ventricles/spiral whirls. Fig 4-Left Ventricle diagram of Muscle Fibers' left- (involute into apex) & right- (evolute at the base) handed Spirals with enumerated sequence.

This combination of clockwise and counterclockwise vortexes is common in nature. For example, within the flower bud of a daisy...

Basic science review: The helix and the heart (2002)

We all have to be students, who are often wrong and always in doubt, while a professor is sometimes wrong and never in doubt. Please join me on my student pathway...

Basic science review: The helix and the heart (2002)

There was a famous cardiologist named Erasistratus... and he talked about the heart twisting...

Creation... is filling an empty room with new ideas. Testing them with ongoing change as you learn. It's a process. It's never an event. It's a process... ask questions and you begin to answer them.

[Y]ou think about knowledge and university. The student is often wrong, and always in doubt. The Professor is sometimes wrong and never in doubt.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Gerald Buckberg (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.