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Quotes from Fischerisms — Martin H. Fischer

1879–1962 Germany

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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.

Fischerisms (1944)

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

Fischerisms (1944)

The specialist is a man who fears other subjects.

Fischerisms (1944)

The great doctors all got their education off dirt pavements and poverty — not marble floors and foundations.

Fischerisms (1944)

Facts are not science — as the dictionary is not literature.

Fischerisms (1944)

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

Fischerisms (1944)

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

Fischerisms (1944)

Research has been called good business, a necessity, a gamble, a game. It is none of these — it's a state of mind.

Fischerisms (1944)

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

Fischerisms (1944)

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.

Fischerisms (1944)

None of the great discoveries was made by a "specialist" or a "researcher".

Fischerisms (1944)

" Any man who does not make himself proficient in at least two languages other than his own is a fool"

Fischerisms (1944)

Whenever ideas fail, men invent words.

Fischerisms (1944)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Martin H. Fischer (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.