Inspirational Quotes by Martin H. Fischer

The judicial mind is too commonly characterized by a regard for a fourth decimal as the equal of a whole number.
—Martin H. Fischer
Topics: Perspective

A man may be born a jackass; but it is his business if he makes himself a double one.
—Martin H. Fischer
Topics: Integrity

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.
—Martin H. Fischer
Topics: Explanation

It is not hard to learn more. What is hard is to unlearn when you discover yourself wrong.
—Martin H. Fischer
Topics: Learning

Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat.
—Martin H. Fischer
Topics: Education

A living civilization creates; a dying, builds museums.
—Martin H. Fischer
Topics: Civilization

God’s interest in the human race is nowhere better evinced than in obstetrics
—Martin H. Fischer
Topics: Pregnancy

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.
—Martin H. Fischer
Topics: Learning

Research is the name given the crystal formed when the night’s worry is added to the day’s sweat.
—Martin H. Fischer
Topics: Night

Bacteria keeps us from heaven and puts us there.
—Martin H. Fischer
Topics: Health

The inventor of soda crackers has a place in hell.
—Martin H. Fischer
Topics: Eating

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 reestablish the truth.
—Martin H. Fischer
Topics: Truth

A specialist is a person who fears the other subjects.
—Martin H. Fischer
Topics: Experts, Professionalism

Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them.
—Martin H. Fischer
Topics: Drugs, Medicine, Health

If you are physically sick, you can elicit the interest of a battery of physicians; but if you are mentally sick, you are lucky if the janitor comes around.
—Martin H. Fischer
Topics: Sanity

Truth is rarely writ in ink; it lives in nature.
—Martin H. Fischer
Topics: Truth

Sin is commitable in thought, word or deed; so is virtue.
—Martin H. Fischer
Topics: Virtue

The breakfast slimes, angel food cake, doughnuts and coffee, white bread and gravy cannot build an enduring nation.
—Martin H. Fischer
Topics: Eating

Why should moral distinction be made between death by the spirochete and death by the streptococcus?
—Martin H. Fischer
Topics: Morality

The world is your school.
—Martin H. Fischer
Topics: Experience

Physiological response to thinking and to pain is the same; and man is not given to hurting himself.
—Martin H. Fischer
Topics: Thinking

The natural philosophers are mostly gone. We modern scientists are adding too many decimals
—Martin H. Fischer
Topics: Philosophy

Most of the food allergies die under garlic and onion.
—Martin H. Fischer
Topics: Eating, One liners

There is no substitute for mother’s milk
—Martin H. Fischer
Topics: One liners, Vegetarianism

All the world is a laboratory to the inquiring mind.
—Martin H. Fischer
Topics: Learning

Life goes faster on protein
—Martin H. Fischer
Topics: Eating, One liners

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.
—Martin H. Fischer
Topics: Learning

The first attribute that characterizes the greater man from the moron is his thicker layer of inhibition.
—Martin H. Fischer
Topics: Self-Control

A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
—Martin H. Fischer
Topics: Thinking, Thoughts, Thought

Facts are not science – as the dictionary is not literature.
—Martin H. Fischer
Topics: Science