Martin H. Fischer Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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.”

“A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.”

“Whenever ideas fail, men invent words.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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