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
The practice of medicine is a thinker’s art, the practice of surgery a plumber s.
—Martin H. Fischer
Topics: Doctors
A machine has value only as it produces more than it consumes – so check your value to the community.
—Martin H. Fischer
Topics: Community
Truth is rarely writ in ink; it lives in nature.
—Martin H. Fischer
Topics: Truth
Life goes faster on protein
—Martin H. Fischer
Topics: Eating, One liners
A man may be born a jackass; but it is his business if he makes himself a double one.
—Martin H. Fischer
Topics: Integrity
Bacteria keeps us from heaven and puts us there.
—Martin H. Fischer
Topics: Health
The only man we have any respect for, is he who uses all the endowment he has, and uses it until he bleeds.
—Martin H. Fischer
Topics: Self-Discovery
The analysis of man discloses three chemical elements – a job, a meal and a woman.
—Martin H. Fischer
Topics: Men
Most of the food allergies die under garlic and onion.
—Martin H. Fischer
Topics: One liners, Eating
All the world is a laboratory to the inquiring mind.
—Martin H. Fischer
Topics: Learning
There is no substitute for mother’s milk
—Martin H. Fischer
Topics: One liners, Vegetarianism
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
A specialist is a person who fears the other subjects.
—Martin H. Fischer
Topics: Experts, Professionalism
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
Education should be exercise; it has become massage.
—Martin H. Fischer
Topics: Education
When there is no explanation, then give it a name, which immediately explains everything
—Martin H. Fischer
Topics: Explanation
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
The tears of the red, yellow, black, brown and white man are all the same.
—Martin H. Fischer
Topics: Equality
It is not hard to learn more. What is hard is to unlearn when you discover yourself wrong.
—Martin H. Fischer
Topics: Learning
Disease is somatic; the suffering from it, psychic.
—Martin H. Fischer
Topics: Health
If a patient cannot clean his teeth, no dentist can clean them for him.
—Martin H. Fischer
Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat.
—Martin H. Fischer
Topics: Education
The world is your school.
—Martin H. Fischer
Topics: Experience
Facts are not science – as the dictionary is not literature.
—Martin H. Fischer
Topics: Science
Your soul is all that you possess. Take it in hand and make something of it.
—Martin H. Fischer
Topics: Self-Discovery
The breakfast slimes, angel food cake, doughnuts and coffee, white bread and gravy cannot build an enduring nation.
—Martin H. Fischer
Topics: Eating
Bureaus are extrusions from the body politic – they are pus
—Martin H. Fischer
Topics: Government
The new appears as a minority point of view, and hence is unpopular. The function of a university is to give it a sanctuary.
—Martin H. Fischer
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