Quotes by Martin H. Fischer
Truth is rarely writ in ink; it lives in nature.
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A doctor whose breath smells has no right to medical opinion.
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Life is a ticket to the greatest show on earth.
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Any man who does not make himself proficient in at least two languages other than his own is a fool.
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In the end, poverty, putridity and pestilence; work, wealth and worry; health, happiness and hell, all simmer down into village problems.
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Don't forget that the flavors of wine and cheese depend upon the types of infecting microörganisms.
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Education aims to give you a boost up the ladder of knowledge. Too often, it just gives you a cramp on one of its rungs.
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Hitler destroyed the German university with design; we destroyed ours without.
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Education should be exercise; it has become massage.
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A living civilization creates; a dying, builds museums.
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We are all parasites; we humans, the greatest.
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Half the modern drugs could well be thrown out the window, except that the birds might eat them.
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Evolution is individual - devolution is collective.
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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.
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The natural philosophers are mostly gone. We modern scientists are adding too many decimals.
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A good teacher must know the rules; a good pupil, the exceptions.
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You're no good unless you are a good assistant; and if you are, you're too good to be an assistant.
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God's interest in the human race is nowhere better evinced than in obstetrics.
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There is no substitute for mother's milk.
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Whenever ideas fail, men invent words.
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Sweat silently. Let's have no squawking about a little expenditure of energy.
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The only man we have any respect for, is he who uses all the endowment he has, and uses it until he bleeds.
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Why should moral distinction be made between death by the spirochete and death by the streptococcus?
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Prize fighters can sometimes read and write when they start - but they can't when they finish.
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Life goes faster on protein.
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Man embraces in his makeup all the natural orders; he's a squid, a mollusk, a sucker and a buzzard; sometimes he's a cerebrate.
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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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Expect an early death - it will keep you busier.
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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.
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Bureaus are extrusions from the body politic - they are pus.
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Sure you can psychoanalyze! But as Baehr used to say, why bother to sort garbage?
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Nowadays the clinical history too often weighs more than the man.
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The inventor of soda crackers has a place in hell.
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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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A machine has value only as it produces more than it consumes - so check your value to the community.
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Morphine and state relief are the same. You go dopey, feel better and are worse off.
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The analysis of man discloses three chemical elements - a job, a meal and a woman.
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Hormones, vitamines, stimulants and depressives are oils upon the creaky machinery of life. Principal item, however, is the machinery.
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Life preys upon life. This is biology's most fundamental fact.
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Not fact-finding, but attainment to philosophy is the aim of science.
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Physiological response to thinking and to pain is the same; and man is not given to hurting himself.
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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?
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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.
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I am of the Buddhists. The great Teacher comes periodically. He is followed by pupils who corrupt the texts and then a new Buddha must be born to re-establish the truth.
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Standardization is the fertilizer of college education. A little may be useful, but flowers do not grow in pure manure.
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The first attribute that characterizes the greater man from the moron is his thicker layer of inhibition.
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The world is your school.
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Paradoxical as it sounds, many intellectuals prefer life in the mud to life in clear water.
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Physiology is the stepchild of medicine. That is why Cinderella often turns out the queen.
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Follow Descartes! Do not give up the religion of your youth until you get a better one.
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Only one rule in medical ethics need concern you - that action on your part which best conserves the interests of your patient.
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You make me sick! You are offered meat and you choose a banana-split-with-nuts.
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It is not hard to learn more. What is hard is to unlearn when you discover yourself wrong.
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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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I find four great classes of students: The dumb who stay dumb. The dumb who become wise. The wise who go dumb. The wise who remain wise.
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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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A sweating ovary or a sick prostate explains most history.
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Take a man out of the trenches, make him a straw boss, and he develops a belly.
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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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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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All the world is a laboratory to the inquiring mind.
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Your soul is all that you possess. Take it in hand and make something of it!
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We use our brains too little, and when we do, it is only to make excuses for our reflexes and our instincts.
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Bacteria keeps us from heaven and puts us there.
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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.
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The patient does not care about your science; what he wants to know is, can you cure him?
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When you no longer know what headache, heartache, or stomachache means without cistern punctures, electrocardiograms and six x-ray plates, you are slipping.
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Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.
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