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

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

Max 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 theoretica….

Only when he has published his ideas and findings has the scientist made his contribution, and only when he has thus made it part of the public domai….

We thus begin to see that the institutionalized practice of citations and references in the sphere of learning is not a trivial matter. While many a ….

The self-fulfilling prophecy is, in the beginning, a false definition of the situation evoking a new behavior which makes the originally false concep….

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

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

Science is public, not private, knowledge..