A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
—Martin H. Fischer
Topics: Thoughts, Thought, Thinking
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
Bacteria keeps us from heaven and puts us there.
—Martin H. Fischer
Topics: Health
The world is your school.
—Martin H. Fischer
Topics: Experience
Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them.
—Martin H. Fischer
Topics: Medicine, Health, Drugs
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
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
Your soul is all that you possess. Take it in hand and make something of it.
—Martin H. Fischer
Topics: Self-Discovery
It is not hard to learn more. What is hard is to unlearn when you discover yourself wrong.
—Martin H. Fischer
Topics: Learning
Truth is rarely writ in ink; it lives in nature.
—Martin H. Fischer
Topics: Truth
Don’t forget that the flavors of wine and cheese depend upon the types of infecting microrganisms
—Martin H. Fischer
Topics: Eating
A living civilization creates; a dying, builds museums.
—Martin H. Fischer
Topics: Civilization
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
The practice of medicine is a thinker’s art, the practice of surgery a plumber s.
—Martin H. Fischer
Topics: Doctors
The analysis of man discloses three chemical elements – a job, a meal and a woman.
—Martin H. Fischer
Topics: Men
Education aims to give you a boost up the ladder of knowledge. Too often, it just gives you a cramp on one of its rungs.
—Martin H. Fischer
Topics: Education
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
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 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
Why should moral distinction be made between death by the spirochete and death by the streptococcus?
—Martin H. Fischer
Topics: Morality
A specialist is a person who fears the other subjects.
—Martin H. Fischer
Topics: Professionalism, Experts
When there is no explanation, then give it a name, which immediately explains everything
—Martin H. Fischer
Topics: Explanation
I find that most men would rather have their bellies opened for five hundred dollars than have a tooth pulled for five.
—Martin H. Fischer
Expect an early death – it will keep you busier.
—Martin H. Fischer
Topics: Carpe-diem
Morphine and state relief are the same. You go dopey, feel better and are worse off.
—Martin H. Fischer
Topics: Government
Most of the food allergies die under garlic and onion.
—Martin H. Fischer
Topics: One liners, Eating
If a patient cannot clean his teeth, no dentist can clean them for him.
—Martin H. Fischer
There is no substitute for mother’s milk
—Martin H. Fischer
Topics: One liners, Vegetarianism
There is only one reason why men become addicted to drugs, they are eak men. Only strong men are cured, and they cure themselves.
—Martin H. Fischer
Topics: Drugs
A nickel’s worth of goulash beats a five dollar can of vitamines.
—Martin H. Fischer
Topics: Eating