"Most institutions demand unqualified faith; but the institution……" — Robert K. Merton
"Most institutions demand unqualified faith; but the institution of science makes skepticism a virtue."
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Robert K. Merton
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9 Quotes by Robert K. Merton
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Science is public, not private, knowledge.
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We thus begin to see that the institutionalized practice of citations and references in the sphere of learning is not…
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The self-fulfilling prophecy is, in the beginning, a false definition of the situation evoking a new behavior which makes the…
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Anticipatory plagiarism occurs when someone steals your original idea and publishes it a hundred years before you were born.
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A cardinal American virtue, 'ambition,' promotes a cardinal American vice, 'deviant behavior.
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Max Weber was right in subscribing to the view that one need not be Caesar in order to understand Caesar.…
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Only when he has published his ideas and findings has the scientist made his contribution, and only when he has…
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The purely abstract theorist runs the risk that, as with modern decor, the furniture of the mind will be sparse,…
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