Quotes from Martin H. Fischer

We humans are the greatest of earth's parasites.

In diagnosis think of the easy first.

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

A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.

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

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.

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

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

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 conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.

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

The new appears as a minority point of view, and hence is unpopular. The function of a university is to give it a sanctuary.

Don't forget that the flavors of wine and cheese depend upon the types of infecting microörganisms.

Life goes faster on protein.

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

If you are physically sick, you can elicit the interest of a battery of physicians; but if you are mentally sick, you are lucky if the janitor comes around.

Expect an early death — it will keep you busier.

You must learn to make the whole world your school.

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.

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

Sin is commitable in thought, word or deed; so is virtue.

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

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

A nickel's worth of goulash beats a five dollar can of vitamines.