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:

    “Dr. Birdsell, my dramatic coach in school, always said that I was the most melancholy Dane that he had ever directed.”
    —Donald Freed, U.S. screenwriter, and Arnold M. Stone. Robert Altman. Richard Nixon (Philip Baker Hall)

    “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)