Quotes from Martin H. Fischer

Hormones, vitamines, stimulants and depressives are oils upon the creaky machinery of life. Principal item, however, is the machinery.

All the world is a laboratory to the inquiring mind.

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.

The pupil can only educate himself. Teachers are the custodians of apparatus upon which he himself must turn and twist to acquire the excellencies that distinguish the better from the poorer of God's vessels.

Our moral theorists seem never content with the normal. Why must it always be a contest between fornication, obesity and laziness, and celibacy, fasting and hard labor?

Whenever ideas fail, men invent words.

A man may be born a jackass; but it is his business if he makes himself a double one.

Nowadays the clinical history too often weighs more than the man.

The refuge of the morally, intellectually, artistically and economically bankrupt is war.

Disease is somatic; the suffering from it, psychic.

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

Evolution is individual — devolution is collective.

Research is the name given the crystal formed when the night's worry is added to the day's sweat.

Of all the supervised conditions for life offered man, those under USA's constitution have proved the best. Wherefore, be sure when you start modifying, corrupting or abrogating it.

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.

The inventor of soda crackers has a place in hell.

You're no good unless you are a good assistant; and if you are, you're too good to be an assistant.

The natural philosophers are mostly gone. We modern scientists are adding too many decimals.

Take a man out of the trenches, make him a straw boss, and he develops a belly.

Sure you can psychoanalyze! But as Baehr used to say, why bother to sort garbage?

Life is a ticket to the greatest show on earth.

Your mind works very simply: you are either trying to find out what are God's laws in order to follow them; or you are trying to outsmart Him.

The public is hedged about by so many goddam bookkeepers that no time is left in which to produce. More time is spent in carrying out garbage than in carrying in food.

Prize fighters can sometimes read and write when they start — but they can't when they finish.