Martin H. Fischer
Martin H. Fischer
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPhysicist
Date of Birth10 November 1879
CountryUnited States of America
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The great doctors all got their education off dirt pavements and poverty - not marble floors and foundations.
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None of the great discoveries was made by a 'specialist' or a 'researcher'.
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Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat.
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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.
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Here's good advice for practice: go into partnership with nature; she does more than half the work and asks none of the fee.
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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.
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Don't despise empiric truth. Lots of things work in practice for which the laboratory has never found proof.
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Facts are not science - as the dictionary is not literature.
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Research has been called good business, a necessity, a gamble, a game. It is none of these - it's a state of mind.
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First need in the reform of hospital management? That's easy! The death of all dietitians, and the resurrection of a French chef.
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I find that most men would rather have their bellies opened for five hundred dollars than have a tooth pulled for five.
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In the sick room, ten cents' worth of human understanding equals ten dollars' worth of medical science.
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Diagnosis is not the end, but the beginning of practice.
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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.