Robert K. Merton Quotes

• A cardinal American virtue, 'ambition,' promotes a cardinal American vice, 'deviant behavior.

  Robert K. Merton

  Ambition, Vices, Virtue

  Robert K. Merton, Piotr Sztompka (1996). “On Social Structure and Science”, p.143, University of Chicago Press

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• Most institutions demand unqualified faith; but the institution of science makes skepticism a virtue.

  Robert K. Merton

  Inspirational, Faith, Science

  Robert K. Merton (1973). “The Sociology of Science: Theoretical and Empirical Investigations”, p.265, University of Chicago Press

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• La profecía autocumplida es, al principio, una definición falsa de la situación que evoca un nuevo comportamiento que hace realidad la concepción originalmente falsa. La validez engañosa de la profecía autocumplida perpetúa un reino de error. Porque el profeta citará el curso real de los acontecimientos como prueba de que tenía razón desde el principio.

  Robert K. Merton

  Science, Errors, Self

  "The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy" (1948)

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• Science is public, not private, knowledge.

  Robert K. Merton

  Knowledge, Science, Accounts

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• 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

  Running, Risk, Mind

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• Anticipatory plagiarism occurs when someone steals your original idea and publishes it a hundred years before you were born.

  Robert K. Merton

  Years, Ideas, Stealing

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• 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. For his claim resides only in the recognition accorded by peers in the social system of science through reference to his work.

  Robert K. Merton

  Science, Ideas, Peers

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• We thus begin to see that the institutionalized practice of citations and references in the sphere of learning is not a trivial matter. While many a general reader-that is, the lay reader located outside the domain of science and scholarship-may regard the lowly footnote or the remote endnote or the bibliographic parenthesis as a dispensable nuisance, it can be argued that these are in truth central to the incentive system and an underlying sense of distributive justice that do much to energize the advancement of knowledge.

  Robert K. Merton

  Aprendizaje, Conocimiento, Ciencia

  Robert K. Merton, Piotr Sztompka (1996). “On Social Structure and Science”, p.333, University of Chicago Press

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• Max Weber was right in subscribing to the view that one need not be Caesar in order to understand Caesar. But there is a temptation for us theoretical sociologists to act sometimes as though it is not necessary even to study Caesar in order to understand him. Yet we know that the interplay of theory and research makes both for understanding of the specific case and expansion of the general rule.

  Robert K. Merton

  Views, Order, Temptation

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