Robert Merton

Robert Merton may refer to:

  • Robert K. Merton (1910–2003), American sociologist
  • Robert C. Merton (born 1944), American economist, Nobel Laureate, MIT professor, son of Robert K. Merton

Famous quotes containing the words robert and/or merton:

    “He’s in the other room getting stiffer than the bodies he demonstrates.”
    —Philip MacDonald, and Robert Wise. Landlord, The Body Snatcher, directing Gray to the drunken Dr. MacFarland (1945)

    “The logic of worldly success rests on a fallacy: the strange error that our perfection depends on the thoughts and opinions and applause of other men! A weird life it is, indeed, to be living always in somebody else’s imagination, as if that were the only place in which one could at last become real!”
    —Thomas Merton (1915–1968)