Martin Henry Fischer Quotes

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

Martin Henry Fischer
A laboratory is only a place where one may better set up and control conditions.

Martin Henry Fischer
Every discovery in science is a tacit criticism of things as they are. That is why the wise man is invariably called a fool.

Martin Henry Fischer
Not fact-finding, but attainment to philosophy, is the aim of science.

Martin Henry Fischer
Search for facts which reach but to the ankle of this colossus in scientific interest and philosophical consequences, and you will find but pigmies crawling at the foot of a giant!

Martin Henry Fischer
The pure mathematician starts with an unknown and ends with an unknown.

Martin Henry Fischer
It is unsafe to talk mathematics. Folks don't understand.

Martin Henry Fischer
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 Henry Fischer
Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

Martin Henry Fischer
When there is no explanation, they give it a name, which immediately explains everything.

Martin Henry Fischer
Many confuse hypothesis and theory. An hypothesis is a possible explanation; a theory, the correct one.

Martin Henry Fischer
Facts are not science — as the dictionary is not literature.

Martin Henry Fischer
You must acquire the ability to describe your observations and your experience in such language that whoever observes or experiences similarly will be forced to the same conclusion.

Martin Henry Fischer
All the world is a laboratory to the inquiring mind.

Martin Henry Fischer
You must learn to talk clearly. The jargon of scientific terminology which rolls off your tongues is mental garbage.

Martin Henry Fischer
I find that most men would rather have their bellies opened for five hundred dollars than have a tooth pulled for five.

Martin Henry Fischer