Martin h. fischer

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

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

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

In diagnosis think of the easy first.

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.

I find that most men would rather have their bellies opened for five hundred dollars than have a tooth pulled for five.

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.

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.

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

The practice of medicine is a thinker's art the practice of surgery a plumber's.