Martin H. Fischer [1879-1962] American    
Rank: 105
Physicist
Science, Knowledge, Medical, Men, Teacher, Wisdom
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| Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them. | Science | 101| We humans are the greatest of earth's parasites. | | 102| You must learn to talk clearly. The jargon of scientific terminology which rolls off your tongues is mental garbage. | | 103| 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. | | 104| A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking. | | 105| 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. | Science | 106| A good teacher must know the rules; a good pupil, the exceptions. | Teacher | 107| Diagnosis is not the end, but the beginning of practice. | | 108| The practice of medicine is a thinker's art the practice of surgery a plumber's. | | 109| Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification. | Knowledge, Wisdom | 110| I find that most men would rather have their bellies opened for five hundred dollars than have a tooth pulled for five. | | 111| In the sick room, ten cents' worth of human understanding equals ten dollars' worth of medical science. | Medical | 112| 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. | | 113| Whenever ideas fail, men invent words. | Men | 114| Facts are not science - as the dictionary is not literature. | | 115| Don't despise empiric truth. Lots of things work in practice for which the laboratory has never found proof. | | 116| First need in the reform of hospital management? That's easy! The death of all dietitians, and the resurrection of a French chef. | | 117| Research has been called good business, a necessity, a gamble, a game. It is none of these - it's a state of mind. | | 118| The great doctors all got their education off dirt pavements and poverty - not marble floors and foundations. | | 119| Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat. | | 120| 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. | | 121| Here's good advice for practice: go into partnership with nature; she does more than half the work and asks none of the fee. | | 122| In diagnosis think of the easy first. | | 123| None of the great discoveries was made by a 'specialist' or a 'researcher'. | | 124 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
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