Quotes by Martin H. Fischer

“Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.”

“Dont 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.”

“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.”

“Here is only one reason why men become addicted to drugs, they are weak men. Only strong men are cured, and they cure themselves.”

“Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them.”

“Facts are not science - as the dictionary is not literature.”

“The practice of medicine is a thinkers art the practice of surgery a plumbers.”

“A good teacher must know the rules; a good pupil, the exceptions.”

“Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat.”

“In diagnosis think of the easy first.”

“Diagnosis is not the end, but the beginning of practice.”

“Every decision creates ripples – like a heavy boulder dropped into a lake. The ripples merge, rebound off the banks in unforeseeable ways. The heavier the decision, the larger the waves, the more uncertain the consequences.”

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.

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

Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them.

A good teacher must know the rules; a good pupil, the exceptions.

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts wisdom lies in their simplification.

In the sick room, ten cents worth of human understanding equals ten dollars worth of medical science.

Whenever ideas fail, men invent words.