Martin Fischer Quotes & Sayings

I find that most men would rather have their bellies opened for five hundred dollars than have a tooth pulled for five. — Martin H. Fischer

Life is a ticket to the greatest show on earth. — Martin H. Fischer

Don't despise empiric truth. Lots of things work in practice for which the laboratory has never found proof. — Martin H. Fischer

In diagnosis think of the easy first. — Martin H. Fischer

You must learn to talk clearly. The jargon of scientific terminology which rolls off your tongues is mental garbage. — Martin H. Fischer

None of the great discoveries was made by a 'specialist' or a 'researcher'. — Martin H. Fischer

A good teacher must know the rules; a good pupil, the exceptions. — Martin H. Fischer

We humans are the greatest of earth's parasites. — Martin H. Fischer

Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat. — Martin H. Fischer

Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them. — Martin H. Fischer

The great doctors all got their education off dirt pavements and poverty - not marble floors and foundations. — Martin H. Fischer

In the sick room, ten cents' worth of human understanding equals ten dollars' worth of medical science. — Martin H. Fischer

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

Diagnosis is not the end, but the beginning of practice. — Martin H. Fischer

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

A man who cannot work without his hypodermic needle is a poor doctor. The amount of narcotic you use is inversely proportional to your skill. — Martin H. Fischer

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

The practice of medicine is a thinker's art the practice of surgery a plumber's. — Martin H. Fischer

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification. — Martin H. Fischer

First need in the reform of hospital management? That's easy! The death of all dietitians, and the resurrection of a French chef. — Martin H. Fischer

Facts are not science - as the dictionary is not literature. — Martin H. Fischer

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

The American critic Dale Peck, author of Hatchet Jobs (2004), argues that reviewing finds its true character in critical GBH such as Fischer's [review of Martin Amis's Yellow Dog]. It represents a return to the prehistoric origins of reviewing in Zoilism - a kind of pelting of pretentious literature with dung, lest the writers get above themselves; it is to the novelist what the gown of humiliation was to the Roman politician - a salutary ordeal. Less grandly, bad reviews are fun, so long as you are not the author. There is, it must be admitted, a kind of furtive blood sport pleasure in seeing a novelist suffer. You read on. Whereas most of us stop reading at the first use of the word 'splendid' or 'marvellous' in a review. — John Sutherland

Don't confuse hypothesis and theory. The former is a possible explanation; the latter, the correct one. The establishment of theory is the very purpose of science. — Martin H. Fischer