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“You must learn to talk clearly. The jargon of scientific terminology which rolls off your tongues is mental garbage.”

Martin H. Fischer

As quoted in ‪Encore : A Continuing Anthology‬ (December 1943) edited by Smith Dent, "Fischerisms" p. 709

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

Martin H. Fischer

Fischerisms (1944)

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

Martin H. Fischer

Fischerisms (1944)

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

Martin H. Fischer

Fischerisms (1944)

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

Martin H. Fischer

Fischerisms (1944)

“Whenever ideas fail, men invent words.”

Martin H. Fischer

Fischerisms (1944)

Martin H. Fischer Quotes

“None of the great discoveries was made by a "specialist" or a "researcher."”

Martin H. Fischer

Fischerisms (1944)

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

Martin H. Fischer

Fischerisms (1944)

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

Martin H. Fischer

Fischerisms (1944)

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

Martin H. Fischer

Fischerisms (1944)

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

Martin H. Fischer

Fischerisms (1944)

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

Martin H. Fischer

Fischerisms (1944)

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

Martin H. Fischer

As quoted in ‪Encore : A Continuing Anthology‬ (March 1945) edited by Smith Dent, "Fischerisms" p. 309

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

Martin H. Fischer

As quoted in Quote Unquote (A Handbook of Quotations) (2005) by M. P. Singh, p. 86

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

Martin H. Fischer

As quoted in ‪Encore : A Continuing Anthology‬ (March 1945) edited by Smith Dent, "Fischerisms" p. 309

“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.”

Martin H. Fischer

Fischerisms (1944)

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

Martin H. Fischer

Fischerisms (1944)

“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.”

Martin H. Fischer

Fischerisms (1944)

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