Martin H. Fischer Quotes

“The specialist is a man who fears other subjects.”

“Any man who does not make himself proficient in at least two languages other than his own is a fool”

“The great doctors all got their education off dirt pavements and poverty — not marble floors and foundations.”

“There is only one reason why men become addicted to drugs — they are weak men. Only strong men are cured, and they cure themselves.”

“Whenever ideas fail, men invent words.”

“Don't despise empiric truth. Lots of things work in practice for which the laboratory has never found proof.”

“Here's good advice for practice: go into partnership with nature; she does more than half the work and asks none of the fee.”

“A good teacher must know the rules; a good pupil, the exceptions.”

“Facts are not science — as the dictionary is not literature.”

“Research has been called good business, a necessity, a gamble, a game. It is none of these — it's a state of mind.”

“A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.”

“A machine has value only as it produces more than it consumes — so check your value to the community.”

“Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.”

“When a man lacks mental balance in pneumonia he is said to be delirious. When he lacks mental balance without the pneumonia, he is pronounced insane by all smart doctors.”

“Diagnosis is not the end, but the beginning of practice.”

“A doctor must work eighteen hours a day and seven days a week. If you cannot console yourself to this, get out of the profession.”