Most institutions demand unqualified faith; but the institution of science makes skepticism a virtue.
Robert K. MertonTags: science skepticism
Anticipatory plagiarism occurs when someone steals your original idea and publishes it a hundred years before you were born.
Robert K. MertonTags: humor plagiarism
A cardinal American virtue, 'ambition,' promotes a cardinal American vice, 'deviant behavior.
Robert K. MertonMax 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. MertonTags: understanding caesar max-weber general-rule specific-case theoretical-sociologists theoretical-sociology
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