Only when he has published his ideas and findings has the scientist made his contribution, and only when he has thus made it part of the public domain of scholarship can he truly lay claim to it as his own.… — Robert K. Merton Copy Share Image
The purely abstract theorist runs the risk that, as with modern decor, the furniture of the mind will be sparse, bare, and uncomfortable. — Robert K. Merton Copy Share Image
Most institutions demand unqualified faith; but the institution of science makes skepticism a virtue. — Robert K. Merton Copy Share Image
The self-fulfilling prophecy is, in the beginning, a false definition of the situation evoking a new behavior which makes the originally false conception come… — Robert K. Merton Copy Share Image
We thus begin to see that the institutionalized practice of citations and references in the sphere of learning is not a trivial matter. While… — Robert K. Merton Copy Share Image
Max Weber was right in subscribing to the view that one need not be Caesar in order to understand Caesar. But there is a… — Robert K. Merton Copy Share Image
Only when he has published his ideas and findings has the scientist made his contribution, and only when he has thus made it part… — Robert K. Merton Copy Share Image
