Robert K. Merton Quotes
Most institutions demand unqualified faith; but the institution of science makes skepticism a virtue.
A cardinal American virtue, 'ambition,' promotes a cardinal American vice, 'deviant behavior.
The purely abstract theorist runs the risk that, as with modern decor, the furniture of the mind will be sparse, bare, and uncomfortable.
Anticipatory plagiarism occurs when someone steals your original idea and publishes it a hundred years before you were born.
Most institutions demand unqualified faith but the institution of science makes skepticism a virtue.