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Most institutions demand unqualified faith; but the institution of science makes skepticism a virtue (Robert K Merton Quotes)
The distinctive intellectual contributions of the sociologist are found primarily in the study of unintended consequences... Of social practices as well as in the study of anticipated consequences (Robert K Merton Quotes)
Anticipatory plagiarism occurs when someone steals your original idea and publishes it a hundred years before you were born (Robert K Merton Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)