Quotes from Martin H. Fischer

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

Minorities are the stars of the firmament; majorities, the darkness in which they float.

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

Reflexes and instincts are not pretty. It is their decoration that initiates art.

Education should be exercise; it has become massage.

The tragedy of education is played in two scenes — incompetent pupils facing competent teachers and incompetent teachers facing competent pupils.

We are all parasites; we humans, the greatest.

You make me sick! You are offered meat and you choose a banana-split-with-nuts.

Physiology is the stepchild of medicine. That is why Cinderella often turns out the queen.

The public blabbers about preventative medicine, but will neither appreciate nor pay for it. You get paid for what you cure.

Hitler destroyed the German university with design; we destroyed ours without.

The analysis of man discloses three chemical elements — a job, a meal and a woman.

Youth disserves; middle age conserves; old age preserves.

A sweating ovary or a sick prostate explains most history.

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

The self-appointed spokesmen for God incline to shout; He, Himself, speaks only in whispers.

We starve the rats, creosote the ticks, swat the flies, step on the cockroaches and poison the scales. Yet when these pests appear in human form we go paralytic.

The great men of science are supreme artists.

Standardization is the fertilizer of college education. A little may be useful, but flowers do not grow in pure manure.

Your soul is all that you possess. Take it in hand and make something of it!

The only equipment lack in the modern hospital? Somebody to meet you at the entrance with a handshake!

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.

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

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.