Fischerism

• A doctor must work eighteen hours a day and seven days a week. If you cannot console yourself to this, get out of the profession.

• A good teacher must know the rules; a good pupil, the exceptions.

• Diagnosis is not the end, but the beginning of practice.

• Don't despise empiric truth. Lots of things work in practice for which the laboratory has never found proof.

• Facts are not science — as the dictionary is not literature.

• Here's good advice for practice: go into partnership with nature; she does more than half the work and asks none of the fee.

• The great doctors all got their education off dirt pavements and poverty — not marble floors and foundations.

• The specialist is a man who fears other subjects.

• None of the great discoveries was made by a "specialist" or a "researcher".

• Research has been called good business, a necessity, a gamble, a game. It is none of these — it's a state of mind.

• When a man lacks mental balance in pneumonia he is said to be delirious. When he lacks mental balance without the pneumonia, he is pronounced insane by all smart doctors.

• Whenever ideas fail, men invent words.

• 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.