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:

    “You can’t have operations without screams. Pain and the knife—they’re inseparable.”
    —Jean Scott Rogers. Robert Day. Mr. Blount (Frank Pettingell)

    “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)