Accounts Quote by Robert K. Merton Download Open image “Science is public, not private, knowledge.” — Robert K. Merton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Accounts Funny Inspirational Knowledge Knows Love Science
My point of view is that science is essentially private, whereas the almost universal counter point of view, explicitly stated in many of the… — Percy Williams Bridgman Copy Share Image
There cannot be any impediment to science that will ultimately be good to the general public. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Access to science is greater than ever before. There are more vehicles out there that grant the public access to science. Not to mention… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Science is definitely part of America's infrastructure, the engine of prosperity. And yet science is given almost no visibility in the media. — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
The general public has long been divided into two parts those who think science can do anything, and those who are afraid it will. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Science is but the exchange of ignorance for that which is another kind of ignorance. — Lord Byron 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
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet everybody fools us out of it who has a… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The Hindus have a peculiar slovenliness in business matters, not being sufficiently methodical and strict in keeping accounts etc. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
With the Truman book, I wrote the entire account of his experiences in World War I before going over to Europe to follow his… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
A great read; an exciting, frightening account of organized crime today. But like all important works of nonfiction, it goes further… This book is… — Le Ly Hayslip Copy Share Image
I had a very blessed journey with the upbringing I had. When you're working on sets as a stuntman, you have a firsthand account… — Ric Roman Waugh Copy Share Image
The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion or in politics, but it is not the path to knowledge; it has no… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
You've got to exercise. Your health account, your bank account, they're the same thing. The more you put in, the more you can take… — Jack LaLanne Copy Share Image
No physiologist who calmly considers the question in connection with the general truths of his science, can long resist the conviction that different parts… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
God puts you where God needs you. You are where you are supposed to be. The job you are doing may not be any… — Lawrence Kushner Copy Share Image
