Martin Henry Fischer

“When a finger points at the moon, the imbecile looks at the finger.”

“Diagnosis is not the end, but the beginning of practice.”

“All the world is a laboratory to the inquiring mind.”

“In the sick room, ten cents' worth of human understanding equals ten dollars' worth of medical science.”

“The world is not a prison-house, but a kind of spiritual kindergarten where millions of bewildered infants are trying to spell God with the wrong blocks.”

“Words are but the signs of ideas.”

“Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.”

“Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them.”

“A doctor is a man who writes prescriptions, till the patient either dies or is cured by nature.”

“First get your facts, then you can distort them at your leisure.”

“Facts are not science - as the dictionary is not literature.”

“Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.”

“A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.”

“Observation, not old age, brings wisdom.”

“Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.”