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Quotes by Sociologist Of Science of the Authors - Page 1

Science is public, not private, knowledge.
Robert K. Merton / Sociologist Of Science
Knowledge
Science
Accounts
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A cardinal American virtue, 'ambition,' promotes a cardinal American vice, 'deviant behavior.
Robert K. Merton / Sociologist Of Science
Ambition
Vices
Virtue
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Most institutions demand unqualified faith; but the institution of science makes skepticism a virtue.
Robert K. Merton / Sociologist Of Science
Inspirational
Faith
Science
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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 / Sociologist Of Science
Ideas
Stealing
Years
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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 / Sociologist Of Science
Running
Mind
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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 / Sociologist Of Science
Science
Ideas
Peers
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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 originally false conception come true. The specious validity of the self-fulfilling prophecy perpetuates a reign of error. For the prophet will cite the actual course of events as proof that he was right from the very beginning.
Robert K. Merton / Sociologist Of Science
Science
Errors
Self
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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 / Sociologist Of Science
Order
Temptation
Views
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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 / Sociologist Of Science
Knowledge
Learning
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