Top 5 Robert K. Merton Quotes (2025 Update)

Robert K. Merton Quote: “Science is public, not private, knowledge.”

1. “Science is public, not private, knowledge.”

Robert K. Merton Quote: “A cardinal American virtue, ‘ambition,’ promotes a cardinal American vice, ’deviant behavior.”

2. “A cardinal American virtue, ‘ambition,’ promotes a cardinal American vice, ’deviant behavior.”

3. “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

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

— Robert K. Merton

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

— Robert K. Merton

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