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Martin H. Fischer

philosopher

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1952

John Martin Fischer is an American philosopher. He is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Riverside and a leading contributor to the philosophy of free will and moral responsibility.

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Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat.

Martin H. Fischer

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

Martin H. Fischer

A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.

Martin H. Fischer

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

Martin H. Fischer

A machine has value only as it produces more than it consumes β€” so check your value to the community.

Martin H. Fischer

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

Martin H. Fischer

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

Martin H. Fischer

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

Martin H. Fischer

Facts are not science β€” as the dictionary is not literature.

Martin H. Fischer

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

The great doctors all got their education off dirt pavements and poverty β€” not marble floors and foundations.

Martin H. Fischer

The specialist is a man who fears other subjects.

Martin H. Fischer

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

Martin H. Fischer

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

Martin H. Fischer

There is only one reason why men become addicted to drugs β€” they are weak men. Only strong men are cured, and they cure themselves.

Martin H. Fischer

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

Whenever ideas fail, men invent words.

Martin H. Fischer

Whenever ideas fail, men invent words.

Martin H. Fischer

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

Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat.

Martin H. Fischer

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

Martin H. Fischer

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

Martin H. Fischer