American - Physicist | November 10, 1879 - January 19, 1962
Don't despise empiric truth. Lots of things work in practice for which the laboratory has never found proof.
Martin H. Fischer
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You must learn to talk clearly. The jargon of scientific terminology which rolls off your tongues is mental garbage.
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Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.
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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.
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First need in the reform of hospital management? That's easy! The death of all dietitians, and the resurrection of a French chef.
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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.
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I find that most men would rather have their bellies opened for five hundred dollars than have a tooth pulled for five.
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In diagnosis think of the easy first.
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In the sick room, ten cents' worth of human understanding equals ten dollars' worth of medical science.
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None of the great discoveries was made by a 'specialist' or a 'researcher'.
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The great doctors all got their education off dirt pavements and poverty - not marble floors and foundations.
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Whenever ideas fail, men invent words.
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