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People who want the most approval get the least and people who need approval the least get the most.

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Robert K. Merton

The purely abstract theorist runs the risk that, as with modern decor, the furniture of the mind will be sparse, bare, and uncomfortable.

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

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A cardinal American virtue, 'ambition,' promotes a cardinal American vice, 'deviant behavior.

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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.

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Science is public, not private, knowledge.

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

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