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1.) I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.

– Florence Nightingale

Saya mengaitkan kesuksesan saya dengan ini - saya tidak pernah memberi atau mengambil
alasan apapun. - Florence Nightingale

2.) So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is
wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself. – Florence
Nightingale

Jadi, jangan pernah kehilangan kesempatan untuk mendesak sebuah awal yang praktis,
betapapun kecilnya, karena sangat menyenangkan betapa seringnya hal itu terjadi pada biji
sesawi yang tumbuh dan berkembang dengan sendirinya. - Florence Nightingale

3.) I think one’s feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions
which bring results. – Florence Nightingale

Saya pikir perasaan seseorang menyia-nyiakan kata-kata; mereka semua harus disuling menjadi
tindakan yang membawa hasil. - Florence Nightingale

4.) Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach
anything better. – Florence Nightingale

Apakah tidak ada yang merasa tidak puas dengan apa yang mereka miliki, dunia tidak akan
pernah mencapai sesuatu yang lebih baik. - Florence Nightingale

5.) She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us,
on how we feel. – Florence Nightingale

Dia mengatakan bahwa objek dan warna pada bahan di sekitar kita sebenarnya memiliki efek
fisik pada kita, tentang bagaimana perasaan kita. - Florence Nightingale

6.) How very little can be done under the spirit of fear. – Florence Nightingale

Sedikit sekali yang bisa dilakukan dengan semangat ketakutan. - Florence Nightingale

7.) The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his
or her peculiar gifts to conventionality. – Florence Nightingale
Dunia dihidupkan kembali oleh kematian setiap orang yang harus mengorbankan pengembangan
karunia-karunia anehnya kepada kesopanan. - Florence Nightingale

8.) I am of certain convinced that the greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily
grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel. – Florence Nightingale

Saya yakin bahwa pahlawan terbesar adalah mereka yang melakukan tugas mereka dalam urusan
domestik sehari-hari sementara dunia berputar-putar sebagai orang yang sangat marah. -
Florence Nightingale

9.) Rather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the
shore. – Florence Nightingale

Sebaliknya, sepuluh kali, mati di ombak, menggembar-gemborkan jalan ke dunia baru, daripada
berdiri santai di pantai. - Florence Nightingale

10.) Let whoever is in charge keep this simple question in her head (not, how can I always do
this right thing myself, but) how can I provide for this right thing to be always done? – Florence
Nightingale

Biarkan siapa pun yang bertanggung jawab menyimpan pertanyaan sederhana ini di
kepalanya (tidak, bagaimana saya bisa selalu melakukan hal yang benar ini, tapi)
bagaimana saya bisa memberikan hal yang benar ini untuk selalu dilakukan? - Florence
Nightingale

11.) Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it. – Florence
Nightingale

Hiduplah saat Anda memilikinya. Hidup adalah anugerah yang indah-tidak ada yang kecil
tentang hal itu. - Florence Nightingale

12.) To understand God’s thoughts we must study statistics, for these are the measure of his
purpose. – Florence Nightingale

Untuk memahami pikiran Tuhan kita harus mempelajari statistik, karena ini adalah ukuran dari
tujuannya. - Florence Nightingale
13.) What cruel mistakes are sometimes made by benevolent men and women in matters of
business about which they can know nothing and think they know a great deal. – Florence
Nightingale

Kesalahan kejam apa yang kadang-kadang dilakukan oleh pria dan wanita baik hati dalam urusan
bisnis yang dengannya mereka tidak dapat mengetahui apapun dan mengira mereka tahu banyak
hal. - Florence Nightingale

14.) No man, not even a doctor, ever gives any other definition of what a nurse should be than
this – ‘devoted and obedient’. This definition would do just as well for a porter. It might even do
for a horse. It would not do for a policeman. – Florence Nightingale

Tidak seorang pun, bahkan seorang dokter pun, tidak pernah memberikan definisi lain tentang
apa yang seharusnya perawat daripada ini - 'setia dan taat'. Definisi ini akan sama baiknya
dengan portir. Bahkan mungkin untuk kuda. Itu tidak akan terjadi pada polisi. - Florence
Nightingale

Florence Nightingale quotes on nursing

15.) Instead of wishing to see more doctors made by women joining what there are, I wish to see
as few doctors, either male or female, as possible. For, mark you, the women have made no
improvement they have only tried to be ”men” and they have only succeeded in being third-rate
men. – Florence Nightingale

Alih-alih berharap untuk melihat lebih banyak dokter yang dibuat oleh wanita yang bergabung
dengan apa adanya, saya ingin melihat beberapa dokter, baik pria maupun wanita, mungkin.
Sebab, tandai, wanita tidak melakukan perbaikan yang hanya mereka coba untuk menjadi "pria"
dan mereka hanya berhasil menjadi orang tingkat tiga. - Florence Nightingale

16.) What the horrors of war are, no one can imagine. They are not wounds and blood and fever,
spotted and low, or dysentery, chronic and acute, cold and heat and famine. They are
intoxication, drunken brutality, demoralization and disorder on the part of the inferior…
jealousies, meanness, indifference, selfish brutality on the part of the superior. – Florence
Nightingale
Apa kengerian perang itu, tidak ada yang bisa membayangkannya. Mereka bukan luka dan darah
dan demam, terlihat dan rendah, atau disentri, kronis dan akut, dingin dan panas dan kelaparan.
Mereka adalah keracunan, kebrutalan mabuk, demoralisasi dan kekacauan pada pihak yang
inferior ... kecemburuan, kekejaman, ketidakpedulian, kebrutalan egois dari pihak atasan. -
Florence Nightingale

17.) There is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain. – Florence Nightingale

Tidak ada bagian dalam hidup saya, dimana saya bisa melihat ke belakang tanpa rasa
sakit. - Florence Nightingale

18.) The craving for ‘the return of the day’, which the sick so constantly evince, is generally
nothing but the desire for light. – Florence Nightingale

Keinginan untuk 'kembalinya hari', yang sakit terus-menerus dievakuasi, umumnya tidak lain
hanyalah keinginan akan cahaya. - Florence Nightingale

19.) The amount of relief and comfort experienced by the sick after the skin has been carefully
washed and dried, is one of the commonest observations made at a sick bed. – Florence
Nightingale

Jumlah kelegaan dan kenyamanan yang dialami orang sakit setelah kulit dicuci dan
dikeringkan dengan hati-hati, merupakan salah satu pengamatan yang paling umum
dilakukan di tempat tidur yang sakit. - Florence Nightingale

20.) Women should have the true nurse calling, the good of the sick first the second only the
consideration of what is their ‘place’ to do – and that women who want for a housemaid to do
this or the charwomen to do that, when the patient is suffering, have not the making of a nurse in
them. – Florence Nightingale

Wanita harus memiliki perawat sejati yang memanggil, kebaikan orang sakit terlebih dahulu
yang kedua hanya mempertimbangkan apa yang 'tempat mereka' lakukan - dan bahwa wanita
yang menginginkan seorang pembantu rumah tangga melakukan ini atau wanita itu untuk
melakukan itu, Saat pasien sedang menderita, janganlah membuat perawat di dalamnya. -
Florence Nightingale
Florence Nightingale quotes on ethics

21.) By mortifying vanity we do ourselves no good. It is the want of interest in our life which
produces it; by filling up that want of interest in our life we can alone remedy it. – Florence
Nightingale

Dengan memilah kesia-siaan, kita tidak melakukan kebaikan. Keinginan ingin hidup kita yang
menghasilkannya; Dengan mengisi yang ingin menarik dalam hidup kita kita sendiri bisa
mengatasinya. - Florence Nightingale

22.) Everything is sketchy. The world does nothing but sketch. – Florence Nightingale

Semuanya samar. Dunia tidak melakukan apapun kecuali sketsa. - Florence Nightingale

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23.) “In it and in the other prayers of the Mystics there is scarcely a petition. There is never a
word of the theory that God’s dealings with us are to show His “power”; still less of the theory –
Florence Nightingale

"Di dalamnya dan dalam doa-doa lain dari Mystik hampir tidak ada sebuah petisi. Tidak pernah
ada sepatah kata pun dari teori bahwa hubungan Allah dengan kita adalah untuk menunjukkan
"kekuatan"-Nya; masih kurang dari teori - Florence Nightingale

24.) That “of His own good pleasure” He has ” predestined” any souls to eternal damnation.”” –
Florence Nightingale

Bahwa "kesenangan-Nya sendiri yang baik" Dia telah "menakdirkan" jiwa-jiwa untuk
penghukuman kekal. "" - Florence Nightingale

25.) It is very well to say “be prudent, be careful, try to know each other.” But how are you to
know each other? – Florence Nightingale

Sangat baik untuk mengatakan "berhati-hatilah, hati-hati, coba untuk saling mengenal."
Tapi bagaimana Anda bisa mengenal satu sama lain? - Florence Nightingale
26.) That Religion is not devotion, but work and suffering for the love of God; this is the true
doctrine of Mystics. – Florence Nightingale

Bahwa Agama bukanlah pengabdian, melainkan pekerjaan dan penderitaan karena kasih Allah;
Inilah doktrin Mistik sejati. - Florence Nightingale

27.) There is a physical, not moral, impossibility of supplying the wants of the intellect in the
state of civilisation at which we have arrived. – Florence Nightingale

Ada ketidakmungkinan fisik, tidak moral, ketidakmampuan memasok keinginan intelek dalam
keadaan peradaban dimana kita telah tiba. - Florence Nightingale

28.) “Women dream till they have no longer the strength to dream; those dreams against which
they so struggle, so honestly, vigorously, and conscientiously, and so in vain, yet which are their
– Florence Nightingale

"Wanita bermimpi sampai mereka tidak lagi memiliki kekuatan untuk bermimpi; mimpi-mimpi
yang melawannya sehingga mereka berjuang, begitu jujur, penuh semangat, dan sungguh-
sungguh, dan dengan sia-sia, namun mereka adalah - Florence Nightingale

29.) Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm
than any exertion. Remember he is face to face with his enemy all the time. – Florence
Nightingale

Ketakutan, ketidakpastian, menunggu, harapan, takut terkejut, melakukan lebih banyak pasien
daripada aktivitas apapun. Ingat dia selalu berhadapan dengan musuhnya sepanjang waktu. -
Florence Nightingale

30.) For it may safely be said, not that the habit of ready and correct observation will by itself
make us useful nurses, but that without it we shall be useless with all our devotion. – Florence
Nightingale

Agar dapat dikatakan dengan aman, bukankah kebiasaan pengamatan siap dan benar
dengan sendirinya membuat kita menjadi perawat yang berguna, tapi tanpa itu kita akan
menjadi tidak berguna dengan semua pengabdian kita. - Florence Nightingale
31.) For the sick it is important to have the best. – Florence Nightingale

Bagi orang sakit penting untuk memiliki yang terbaik. - Florence Nightingale

32.) Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization, never intended … to take in the
whole sick population. May we hope that the day will come … when every poor sick person will
have the opportunity of a share in a district sick-nurse at home. – Florence Nightingale

Rumah sakit hanyalah tahap peradaban peralihan, tidak pernah dimaksudkan ... untuk memenuhi
seluruh populasi yang sakit. Semoga kita berharap hari itu akan tiba ... kapan setiap orang sakit
yang malang akan mendapat kesempatan untuk berbagi di perawat sakit distrik di rumah. -
Florence Nightingale

33.) It is the unqualified result of all my experience with the sick that, second only to their need
of fresh air, is their need of light; that, after a close room, what hurts them most is a dark room
and that it is not only light but direct sunlight they want. – Florence Nightingale

Ini adalah hasil yang tidak wajar dari semua pengalaman saya dengan orang sakit, yang kedua
setelah kebutuhan akan udara segar, adalah kebutuhan cahaya mereka; Itu, setelah sebuah
ruangan dekat, yang paling menyakitkan adalah ruang gelap dan sinar matahari tidak hanya
terang tapi langsung yang mereka inginkan. - Florence Nightingale

34.) The first possibility of rural cleanliness lies in water supply. – Florence Nightingale

Kemungkinan pertama kebersihan pedesaan terletak pada persediaan air. - Florence Nightingale

35.) People say the effect is only on the mind. It is no such thing. The effect is on the body, too.
Little as we know about the way in which we are affected by form, by color, and light, we do
know this, that they have an actual physical effect. Variety of form and brilliancy of color in the
objects presented to patients, are actual means of recovery. – Florence Nightingale

Orang bilang efeknya hanya ada di pikiran. Tidak ada hal seperti itu. Efeknya ada di tubuh juga.
Sedikit yang kita tahu tentang bagaimana kita terpengaruh oleh bentuk, warna, dan cahaya, kita
tahu ini, bahwa mereka memiliki efek fisik yang sebenarnya. Berbagai bentuk dan
kecemerlangan warna pada objek yang disajikan kepada pasien, adalah sarana pemulihan yang
sebenarnya. - Florence Nightingale
36.) The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as
for the sick. The same laws of health, or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain
among the well as among the sick. – Florence Nightingale

Unsur-unsur dari apa yang merupakan perawatan yang baik sama sedikit dipahami untuk orang
baik bagi orang sakit. Hukum kesehatan yang sama, atau keperawatan, karena kenyataannya
sama, dapatkan di antara sumur di antara orang sakit. - Florence Nightingale Florence
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37.) To be a fellow worker with God is the highest aspiration of which we can conceive man
capable. – Florence Nightingale

Menjadi rekan sekerja dengan Tuhan adalah cita-cita tertinggi yang bisa kita dapati mampu
manusia. - Florence Nightingale

38.) Mankind must make heaven before we can “go to heaven” (as the phrase is), in this world as
in any other. – Florence Nightingale

Umat manusia harus membuat surga sebelum kita bisa "masuk surga" (seperti ungkapannya), di
dunia ini seperti di lainnya. - Florence Nightingale

39.) Asceticism is the trifling of an enthusiast with his power, a puerile coquetting with his
selfishness or his vanity, in the absence of any sufficiently great object to employ the first or
overcome the last. – Florence Nightingale

Asceticism adalah hal yang sepele dari penggila dengan kekuatannya, sebuah kudeta yang
kekanak-kanakan dengan keegoisan atau kesombongannya, tanpa adanya objek yang cukup
besar untuk menggunakan yang pertama atau mengatasi yang terakhir. - Florence Nightingale

40.) Never dispute with anybody who wishes to contradict you, says a most reasonable saint. –
Florence Nightingale

Jangan pernah membantah siapa pun yang ingin menentang Anda, kata orang suci yang paling
masuk akal. - Florence Nightingale Florence Nightingale mengutip tentang etika
41.) I stand at the altar of the murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause. – Florence
Nightingale

Saya berdiri di altar orang-orang yang terbunuh, dan sementara saya tinggal, saya melawan
tujuan mereka. - Florence Nightingale

42.) I did not think of going to give myself a position, but for the sake of common humanity. –
Florence Nightingale

.) Saya tidak berpikir untuk memberi posisi kepada saya, tapi demi kemanusiaan bersama. -
Florence Nightingale

43.) If you knew how unreasonably sick people suffer from reasonable causes of distress, you
would take more pains about all these things.’ – Florence Nightingale

Jika Anda tahu bagaimana orang-orang yang tidak berakal sehat menderita penyebab kesedihan
yang masuk akal, Anda akan lebih bersusah payah mengenai semua hal ini. '- Florence
Nightingale

Perawat Tahu: Pikiran hanya bisa terlihat. Jantung benar-benar bisa melihat. -Carol Gino

Ketakutan, ketidakpastian, menunggu, harapan, takut terkejut, lebih menyakitkan daripada usaha
apapun.-Florence Nightingale Keperawatan adalah sebuah seni: dan jika itu dibuat sebuah seni,
itu memerlukan pengabdian eksklusif sesulit persiapan, seperti karya pelukis atau pematung
apapun; untuk apa hubungannya dengan kanvas mati atau marmer mati, dibandingkan dengan
hubungannya dengan tubuh yang hidup, bait suci roh Allah? Ini adalah salah satu Seni Rupa:
Saya hampir mengatakan, yang terbaik dari Fine Arts.- Florence Nightingale
Ini bukan kasus yang sedang kita obati; Ini adalah makhluk hidup, berjongkok, sayangnya,
terlalu sering menderita sesama makhluk.-John Brown

Pasien tidak peduli dengan sains Anda; Yang ingin dia ketahui adalah, bisakah Anda
menyembuhkannya? -Martin H. Fischer
A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
— Martin H. Fischer
In Charlie Walker, My Few Wise Words of Wisdom (200), 151.
Science quotes on: | Conclusion (120) | Publication (83) | Tired (11)

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
— Martin H. Fischer
Martin H. Fischer, Howard Fabing (ed.) and Ray Marr (ed.), Fischerisms (1944).
Science quotes on: | Physician (232) | Work (457)

A doctor whose breath smells has no right to medical opinion.


— Martin H. Fischer
Science quotes on: | Breath (24) | Opinion (146) | Physician (232)

A good teacher must know the rules; a good pupil, the exceptions.
— Martin H. Fischer
Martin H. Fischer, Howard Fabing (ed.) and Ray Marr (ed.), Fischerisms (1944).
Science quotes on: | Exception (33) | Good (228) | Knowledge (1128) | Pupil (16) | Rule
(135) | Teacher (90)

A laboratory is only a place where one may better set up and control conditions.
— Martin H. Fischer
Martin H. Fischer, Howard Fabing (ed.) and Ray Marr (ed.), Fischerisms (1944).
Science quotes on: | Better (131) | Condition (119) | Control (93) | Laboratory (120)

A living civilization creates; a dying, builds museums.


— Martin H. Fischer
Science quotes on: | Civilization (155) | Museum (22)

A machine has value only as it produces more than it consumes—so check your value to the
community.
— Martin H. Fischer
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A man may be born a jackass; but it is his business if he makes himself a double one.
— Martin H. Fischer
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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.
— Martin H. Fischer
Martin H. Fischer, Howard Fabing (ed.) and Ray Marr (ed.), Fischerisms (1944).
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A nickel’s worth of goulash beats a five dollar can of vitamins.
— Martin H. Fischer
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All the world is a laboratory to the inquiring mind.


— Martin H. Fischer
Martin H. Fischer, Howard Fabing (ed.) and Ray Marr (ed.), Fischerisms (1944).
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An insane man is a sick man. Please don’t forget that, gentlemen.


— Martin H. Fischer
Martin H. Fischer, Howard Fabing (ed.) and Ray Marr (ed.), Fischerisms (1944).
Science quotes on: | Forgeting (2) | Gentleman (17) | Insane (7) | Sick (23)

Any man who does not make himself proficient in at least two languages other than his own is a
fool.
— Martin H. Fischer
Martin H. Fischer, Howard Fabing (ed.) and Ray Marr (ed.), Fischerisms (1944).
Science quotes on: | Education (280) | Fool (70) | Language (155)

Bacteria keeps us from heaven and puts us there.


— Martin H. Fischer
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Diagnosis is not the end, but the beginning of practice.


— Martin H. Fischer
Martin H. Fischer, Howard Fabing (ed.) and Ray Marr (ed.), Fischerisms (1944).
Science quotes on: | Diagnosis (61) | Treatment (88)

Diets were invented of the church, the workhouse and the hospital. They were started for the
punishment of the spirit and have ended in the punishment of the body.
— Martin H. Fischer
Martin H. Fischer, Howard Fabing (ed.) and Ray Marr (ed.), Fischerisms (1944).
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(33) | Invention (283) | Punishment (10) | Spirit (113) | Start (68) | Workhouse (2)

Disease is somatic; the suffering from it, psychic.


— Martin H. Fischer
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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
Martin H. Fischer, Howard Fabing (ed.) and Ray Marr (ed.), Fischerisms (1944), 7.
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(161) | Hypothesis (227) | Possibility (96) | Purpose (138) | Purpose Of Science (4) | Science
(1699) | Theory (582)

Don’t despise empiric truth. Lots of things work in practice for which the laboratory has never
found proof.
— Martin H. Fischer
Martin H. Fischer, Howard Fabing (ed.) and Ray Marr (ed.), Fischerisms (1944).
Science quotes on: | Empiricism (16) | Laboratory (120) | Proof (192) | Truth (750)

Don’t forget that the flavors of wine and cheese depend upon the types of infecting
microorganisms.
— Martin H. Fischer
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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
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Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat.


— Martin H. Fischer
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Education should be exercise; it has become massage.


— Martin H. Fischer
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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 H. Fischer
Martin H. Fischer, Howard Fabing (ed.) and Ray Marr (ed.), Fischerisms (1944).
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(8) | Science (1699) | Wisdom (151) | Wise Man (10)

Expect an early death - it will keep you busier.


— Martin H. Fischer
Science quotes on: | Death (270)

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


— Martin H. Fischer
Martin H. Fischer, Howard Fabing (ed.) and Ray Marr (ed.), Fischerisms (1944), 21.
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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.
— Martin H. Fischer
Martin H. Fischer, Howard Fabing (ed.) and Ray Marr (ed.), Fischerisms (1944).
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Follow Descartes! Do not give up the religion of your youth until you get a better one.
— Martin H. Fischer
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God’s interest in the human race is nowhere better evinced than in obstetrics.
— Martin H. Fischer
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Half the modern drugs could well be thrown out the window except that the birds might eat them
— Martin H. Fischer
Martin H. Fischer, Howard Fabing (ed.) and Ray Marr (ed.), Fischerisms (1944).

Here’s good advice for practice: go into partnership with nature; she does more than half the
work and asks none of the fee.
— Martin H. Fischer
Martin H. Fischer, Howard Fabing (ed.) and Ray Marr (ed.), Fischerisms (1944).
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(457)

Hitler destroyed the German university with design; we destroyed ours without.
— Martin H. Fischer
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Hormones, vitamines, stimulants and depressives are oils upon the creaky machinery of life.
Principal item, however, is the machinery.
— Martin H. Fischer
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(3) | Vitamin (11)

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.
— Martin H. Fischer
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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.
— Martin H. Fischer
Martin H. Fischer, Howard Fabing (ed.) and Ray Marr (ed.), Fischerisms (1944).
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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
Martin H. Fischer, Howard Fabing (ed.) and Ray Marr (ed.), Fischerisms (1944).
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If you do not agree with the prevalent point of view, be ready to explain why.
— Martin H. Fischer
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If you don’t know what’s meant by God, watch a forsythia branch or a lettuce leaf sprout.
— Martin H. Fischer
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In diagnosis, think of the easy first.


— Martin H. Fischer
Martin H. Fischer, Howard Fabing (ed.) and Ray Marr (ed.), Fischerisms (1944).
Science quotes on: | Diagnosis (61) | Easy (56)

In the end, poverty, putridity and pestilence; work, wealth and worry; health, happiness and hell,
all simmer down into village problems.
— Martin H. Fischer
Science quotes on: | Happiness (82) | Health (136) | Hell (29) | Money (125) | Pestilence
(8) | Poverty (29) | Problem (362) | Work (457)

In the sick room, ten cents’ worth of human understanding equals ten dollars' worth of medical
science.
— Martin H. Fischer
Martin H. Fischer, Howard Fabing (ed.) and Ray Marr (ed.), Fischerisms (1944).
Science quotes on: | Hospital (33) | Medicine (322) | Treatment (88) | Understanding (317)

It is not hard to learn more. What is hard is to unlearn when you discover yourself wrong
— Martin H. Fischer
Science quotes on: | Correction (28) | Error (230) | Learn (160)

It is unsafe to talk mathematics. Folks don’t understand.


— Martin H. Fischer
Martin H. Fischer, Howard Fabing (ed.) and Ray Marr (ed.), Fischerisms (1944), 3.
Science quotes on: | Folk (6) | Mathematics (587) | Talk (61) | Understanding (317) | Unsafe
(5)

It takes fifty years from the discovery of a principle in medicine to its adoption in practice.
— Martin H. Fischer
In Jess M. Brallier, Medical Wit & Wisdom (1993), 29.
Science quotes on: | Adoption (6) | Discovery (591) | Fifty (15) | Medicine (322) | Practice
(67) | Principle (228) | Year (214)

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


— Martin H. Fischer
In Fischerisms (1930), 7.
Science quotes on: | Fact (609) | Knowledge (1128) | Simplification (12) | Wisdom (151)

Life goes faster on protein.


— Martin H. Fischer
Science quotes on: | Life (917) | Protein (43)

Life has been reduced to getting food out of cans.


— Martin H. Fischer
Science quotes on: | Food (139) | Life (917)

Life is a ticket to the greatest show on earth.


— Martin H. Fischer
Science quotes on: | Life (917) | Show (55)

Man embraces in his makeup all the natural orders; he’s a squid, a mollusk, a sucker and a
buzzard; sometimes he’s a cerebrate.
— Martin H. Fischer
Science quotes on: | Buzzard (3) | Man (345) | Mollusk (3) | Role (35) | Squid (2) | Sucker (2)

Many a diabetic has stayed alive by stealing the bread denied him by his doctor.
— Martin H. Fischer
Martin H. Fischer, Howard Fabing (ed.) and Ray Marr (ed.), Fischerisms (1944).
Science quotes on: | Diabetes (4) | Physician (232) | Treatment (88)

Medicine is the one place where all the show is stripped of the human drama. You, as doctors,
will be in a position to see the human race stark naked—not only physically, but mentally and
morally as well.
— Martin H. Fischer
Martin H. Fischer, Howard Fabing (ed.) and Ray Marr (ed.), Fischerisms (1944).
Science quotes on: | Medicine (322) | Naked (8)

Minorities are the stars of the firmament; majorities, the darkness in which they float.
— Martin H. Fischer
Science quotes on: | Majority (32) | Minority (16)

None of the great discoveries was made by a “specialist” or a “researcher.”


— Martin H. Fischer
Martin H. Fischer, Howard Fabing (ed.) and Ray Marr (ed.), Fischerisms (1944).
Science quotes on: | Discovery (591) | Research (517) | Specialist (20)

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


— Martin H. Fischer
…...
Science quotes on: | Aim (58) | Attainment (35) | Philosophy (213) | Science (1699)

Nowadays the clinical history too often weighs more than the man.
— Martin H. Fischer
In Jess M. Brallier, Medical Wit & Wisdom (1993), 29.
Science quotes on: | Diagnosis (61) | History (302) | Treatment (88)

Observation, Reason, Human Understanding, Courage; these make the physician.


— Martin H. Fischer
In Fischerisms (1930), 7.
Science quotes on: | Courage (39) | Human (445) | Observation (418) | Physician
(232) | Reason (330) | Understanding (317)

Of all the supervised conditions for life offered man, those under U.S.A.’s constitution have
proved the best. Wherefore, be sure when you start modifying, corrupting or abrogating it.
— Martin H. Fischer
Science quotes on: | The Constitution of the United States (7)

On J-Day our profession will have a lot to answer for! We might at least have withheld our hands
instead of making them work against God.
— Martin H. Fischer
Science quotes on: | Physician (232)

Only one rule in medical ethics need concern you - that action on your part which best conserves
the interests of your patient.
— Martin H. Fischer
Science quotes on: | Ethics (30) | Patient (116) | Treatment (88)

Our moral theorists seem never content with the normal. Why must it always be a contest
between fornication, obesity and laziness, and celibacy, fasting and hard labor?
— Martin H. Fischer
Science quotes on: | Contest (5) | Ethics (30) | Fasting (2) | Laziness (5) | Normal
(21) | Obesity (5) | Work (457)

Our profession is the only one which works unceasingly to annihilate itself.
— Martin H. Fischer

Physiological response to thinking and to pain is the same; and man is not given to hurting
himself.
— Martin H. Fischer
Science quotes on: | Pain (82) | Physiology (66) | Thought (374)

Physiology is the stepchild of medicine. That is why Cinderella often turns out the queen.
— Martin H. Fischer
Science quotes on: | Physiology (66)

Prize fighters can sometimes read and write when they start - but they can't when they finish.
— Martin H. Fischer
Science quotes on: | Fighter (4) | Injury (14) | Read (83) | Write (87)
Psychology is physiology above the collar button.
— Martin H. Fischer
Science quotes on: | Brain (181) | Physiology (66) | Psychology (125)

Reflexes and instincts are not pretty. It is their decoration that initiates art.
— Martin H. Fischer
Science quotes on: | Instinct (50) | Reflex (9)

Research has been called good business, a necessity, a gamble, a game. It is none of these—it’s a
state of mind.
— Martin H. Fischer
Martin H. Fischer, Howard Fabing (ed.) and Ray Marr (ed.), Fischerisms (1944).
Science quotes on: | Game (45) | Mind (544) | Research (517)

Research is the name given the crystal formed when the night’s worry is added to the day's
sweat.
— Martin H. Fischer
Science quotes on: | Research (517) | Work (457) | Worry (27)

Sin is commitable in thought, word or deed; so is virtue.


— Martin H. Fischer
Science quotes on: | Deed (17) | Sin (27) | Thought (374) | Virtue (55) | Word (221)

Social reform aims to improve the condition of the poor by worsening the condition of the rich.
— Martin H. Fischer
Science quotes on: | Poverty (29) | Reform (10) | Rich (48) | Wealth (50)

Some day when you have time, look into the business of prayer, amulets, baths, and poultices,
and discover much valuable therapy the profession has cast on the dump
— Martin H. Fischer
Martin H. Fischer, Howard Fabing (ed.) and Ray Marr (ed.), Fischerisms (1944).
Science quotes on: | Bath (7) | Prayer (19) | Therapy (10)

Specialists never contribute anything to their specialty; Helmholtz wasn’t an eye-specialist, but a
German army doctor who invented the ophthalmoscope one Saturday afternoon when there
wasn’t anything else to do. Incidentally, he rewrote whole chapters of physics, so that the
physicists only know him as one of their own. Robert Mayer wasn’t a physicist, but another
country doctor; and Pasteur, who made bacteriology, was a tanner’s son or a chemist, as you
will.
— Martin H. Fischer
In Fischerisms (1930), 7.
Science quotes on: | Afternoon (3) | Army (22) | Bacteriology (5) | Chapter (7) | Chemist
(79) | Contribution (49) | Country (121) | Doctor (100) | Eye (159) | German (7) | Hermann
von Helmholtz (21) | Incidental (8) | Invented (4) | Robert Mayer (10) | Louis Pasteur
(79) | Physicist (130) | Physics (301) | Saturday (3) | Son (16) | Specialist (20) | Specialty
(8) | Whole (122)

Surgery is the cry of defeat in medicine.


— Martin H. Fischer
In Fischerisms (1930), 7.
Science quotes on: | Cry (13) | Defeat (13) | Medicine (322) | Surgery (39)

Sweat silently. Let's have no squawking about a little expenditure of energy.


— Martin H. Fischer
Science quotes on: | Energy (185) | Sweat (12)

Take a man out of the trenches, make him a straw boss, and he develops a belly.
— Martin H. Fischer
Science quotes on: | Belly (3) | Trench (3)

The American is a gentle guy; but don't pressure him; if you do he turns toad and squirts poison.
— Martin H. Fischer
Science quotes on: | American (34) | Poison (32) | Toad (7)

The analysis of man discloses three chemical elements - a job, a meal and a woman.
— Martin H. Fischer
Science quotes on: | Analysis (123) | Element (129) | Food (139) | Job (33) | Man
(345) | Woman (94)

The breakfast slimes, angel food cake, doughnuts and coffee, white bread and gravy cannot build
an enduring nation."
— Martin H. Fischer
Science quotes on: | Bread (19) | Breakfast (7) | Cake (3) | Coffee (10) | Nation (111)

The first attribute that characterizes the greater man from the moron is his thicker layer of
inhibition."
— Martin H. Fischer
Science quotes on: | Inhibition (10) | Man (345) | Moron (2)

The first rule to proper diet? Ask them what they want and then give it to them. There are few
exceptions.
— Martin H. Fischer
Martin H. Fischer, Howard Fabing (ed.) and Ray Marr (ed.), Fischerisms (1944).
Science quotes on: | Asking (23) | Diet (41) | Exception (33) | Giving (11) | Proper (27) | Rule
(135) | Want (120)

The great doctors all got their education off dirt pavements and poverty—not marble floors and
foundations.
— Martin H. Fischer
Martin H. Fischer, Howard Fabing (ed.) and Ray Marr (ed.), Fischerisms (1944).
Science quotes on: | Education (280) | Physician (232) | Poverty (29) | Wealth (50)

The great men of science are supreme artists.


— Martin H. Fischer
Science quotes on: | Artist (46) | Men Of Science (97)

The greatest discoveries of surgery are anaesthesia, asepsis, and roentgenology—and none was
made by a surgeon.
— Martin H. Fischer
Martin H. Fischer, Howard Fabing (ed.) and Ray Marr (ed.), Fischerisms (1944).
Science quotes on: | Anaesthesia (3) | Asepsis (2) | Discovery (591) | Greatest (53) | Surgeon
(43) | Surgery (39)

The heart is the only organ that takes no rest.


— Martin H. Fischer
Martin H. Fischer, Howard Fabing (ed.) and Ray Marr (ed.), Fischerisms (1944).
Science quotes on: | Heart (110) | Organ (60) | Rest (64)

The inertia hardest to overcome is that of perfectly good seconds.


— Martin H. Fischer
Science quotes on: | Inertia (10) | Second (33)

The inventor of soda crackers has a place in hell.


— Martin H. Fischer
Science quotes on: | Hell (29) | Inventor (49)

The judicial mind is too commonly characterized by a regard for a fourth decimal as the equal of
a whole number.
— Martin H. Fischer
Science quotes on: | Decimal (11) | Mind (544) | Number (179)

The natural philosophers are mostly gone. We modern scientists are adding too many decimals.
— Martin H. Fischer
Science quotes on: | Decimal (11) | Philosopher (132) | Scientist (447)

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
Science quotes on: | Minority (16) | New (340) | Sanctuary (4) | University (51)

The only equipment lack in the modern hospital? Somebody to meet you at the entrance with a
handshake!
— Martin H. Fischer
Science quotes on: | Equipment (26) | Greeting (3) | Handshake (2) | Hospital (33)
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
Science quotes on: | Hemorrhage (2) | Man (345) | Respect (57)

The patient does not care about your science; what he wants to know is, can you cure him?
— Martin H. Fischer
Science quotes on: | Cure (88) | Medicine (322) | Patient (116)

The practice of medicine is a thinker’s art, the practice of surgery a plumber’s.


— Martin H. Fischer
In Fischerisms (1930), 7.
Science quotes on: | Medicine (322) | Plumber (7) | Surgery (39) | Thinker (15)

The public blabbers about preventative medicine, but will neither appreciate nor pay for it. You
get paid for what you cure.
— Martin H. Fischer
Science quotes on: | Cure (88) | Medicine (322) | Prevention (29)

The public is hedged about by so many goddam bookkeepers that no time is left in which to
produce. More time is spent in carrying out garbage than in carrying in food.
— Martin H. Fischer
Science quotes on: | Food (139) | Garbage (5) | Production (105)

The pure mathematician starts with an unknown and ends with an unknown.
— Martin H. Fischer
Martin H. Fischer, Howard Fabing (ed.) and Ray Marr (ed.), Fischerisms (1944), 40.
Science quotes on: | End (141) | Pure Mathematics (27) | Start (68) | Unknown (87)

The refuge of the morally, intellectually, artistically and economically bankrupt is war.
— Martin H. Fischer
Science quotes on: | Ethics (30) | Intellect (157) | War (144)

The self-appointed spokesmen for God incline to shout; He, Himself, speaks only in whispers.
— Martin H. Fischer
Science quotes on: | God (454)

The specialist is a man who fears the other subjects.


— Martin H. Fischer
Martin H. Fischer, Howard Fabing (ed.) and Ray Marr (ed.), Fischerisms (1944).
Science quotes on: | Fear (113) | Specialist (20)

The tears of the red, yellow, black, brown and white man are all the same.
— Martin H. Fischer
Science quotes on: | Minority (16) | Tear (20)
The thoughts of Plato and Machiavelli... don't seem quite enough armor for a world beset with
splitting the atoms, urban guerrillas, nineteen varieties of psychotherapists, amplified guitars,
napalm, computers, astronauts, and an atmosphere polluted simultaneously with auto exhaust and
TV commercials.
— Martin H. Fischer
Science quotes on: | Armor (3) | Astronaut (22) | Atmosphere (63) | Atom (251) | Automobile
(19) | Commercial (25) | Computer (84) | Exhaust (12) | Nuclear Energy (10) | Plato
(47) | Pollution (37) | TV (2)

The world is your school.


— Martin H. Fischer
Science quotes on: | Education (280) | School (87) | World (667)

There is no substitute for mother’s milk.


— Martin H. Fischer
Science quotes on: | Milk (12) | Mother (59) | Substitute (23)

There is only one reason why men become addicted to drugs — they are weak men. Only strong
men are cured, and they cure themselves.
— Martin H. Fischer
Martin H. Fischer, Howard Fabing (ed.) and Ray Marr (ed.), Fischerisms (1944).
Science quotes on: | Addict (4) | Cure (88) | Drug (40) | Reason (330) | Self (39) | Strong
(47) | Weak (36)

There is only one reason why men become addicted to drugs, they are weak me. Only strong
men are cured, and they cure themselves.
— Martin H. Fischer
Martin H. Fischer, Howard Fabing (ed.) and Ray Marr (ed.), Fischerisms (1944).
Science quotes on: | Addict (4) | Cure (88)

Truth is rarely writ in ink; it lives in nature.


— Martin H. Fischer
Science quotes on: | Ink (7) | Nature (1029) | Truth (750)

We are all parasites; we humans, the greatest.


— Martin H. Fischer
Science quotes on: | Human (445) | Parasite (28)

We humans are the greatest of earth’s parasites


— Martin H. Fischer
Science quotes on: | Human (445) | Parasite (28)

We starve the rats, creosote the ticks, swat the flies, step on the cockroaches and poison the
scales. Yet when these pests appear in human form we go paralytic.
— Martin H. Fischer
Science quotes on: | Cockroach (6) | Fly (65) | Human (445) | Poison (32) | Rat
(19) | Starvation (9) | Tick (5)

What this country needs is radicals who will stay that way regardless of the creeping years.
— Martin H. Fischer
Science quotes on: | Radical (17)

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.
— Martin H. Fischer
Martin H. Fischer, Howard Fabing (ed.) and Ray Marr (ed.), Fischerisms (1944).
Science quotes on: | Diagnosis (61) | Insane (7) | Mental Health (4) | Physician
(232) | Pneumonia (6)

When there is no explanation, then give it a name, which immediately explains everything
— Martin H. Fischer
Martin H. Fischer, Howard Fabing (ed.) and Ray Marr (ed.), Fischerisms (1944), 4.
Science quotes on: | Explanation (161) | Nomenclature (129)

When you no longer know what headache, heartache, or stomachache means without cistern
punctures, electrocardiograms and six x-ray plates, you are slipping.
— Martin H. Fischer
Science quotes on: | Headache (5) | X-ray (18)

Whenever ideas fail, men invent words.


— Martin H. Fischer
Martin H. Fischer, Howard Fabing (ed.) and Ray Marr (ed.), Fischerisms (1944).
Science quotes on: | Idea (440) | Invention (283) | Word (221)

Why should moral distinction be made between death by the spirochete and death by the
streptococcus?
— Martin H. Fischer
Science quotes on: | Death (270)

You make me sick! You are offered meat and you choose a banana-split-with-nuts.
— Martin H. Fischer
Science quotes on: | Food (139) | Health (136) | Meat (11)

You must learn to talk clearly. The jargon of scientific terminology which rolls off your tongues
is mental garbage
— Martin H. Fischer
Martin H. Fischer, Howard Fabing (ed.) and Ray Marr (ed.), Fischerisms (1944).
Science quotes on: | Clarity (31) | Garbage (5) | Jargon (6) | Nomenclature (129) | Talk (61)

Your mind works very simply: you are either trying to find out what are God’s laws in order to
follow them; or you are trying to outsmart Him.
— Martin H. Fischer
Science quotes on: | God (454) | Mind (544)

Youth disserves; middle age conserves; old age preserves.


— Martin H. Fischer
Science quotes on: | Conserve (5) | Middle Age (6) | Old Age (18) | Preserve (38) | Youth (57)

You’re no good unless you are a good assistant; and if you are, you’re too good to be an
assistant.

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