Martin H. Fischer

Physicist

47 Quotes

The practice of medicine is a thinker's art the practice of surgery a plumber's.

Facts are not science - as the dictionary is not literature.

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

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.

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

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

Facts are not science - as the dictionary is not literature.

Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Whenever ideas fail, men invent words.

We humans are the greatest of earth's parasites.

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

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

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