Martin Henry Fischer Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.

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.

Whenever ideas fail, men invent words.

The specialist is a man who fears other subjects.

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

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

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