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Max Weber was right in subscribing to the view that one need not be Caesar in order to understand Ca...

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Most institutions demand unqualified faith but the institution of science makes skepticism a virtue.

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Robert K. Merton

Sociologist of Science

Born: 1910-07-04

Died: 2003-02-23

Robert K. Merton (4 July 1910 – 23 February 2003) was a distinguished American sociologist perhaps best known for having coined the phrase "self-fulfilling prophecy."More