Robert Staughton Lynd
Robert Staughton Lynd
Robert Staughton Lyndwas an American sociologist and professor at Columbia University, New York City. Robert and his wife Helen Lynd are best known for writing the groundbreaking "Middletown" studies of Muncie, Indiana - Middletown: A Study in Contemporary American Cultureand Middletown in Transition, which are classics of American sociology. Muncie was the first community to be systematically examined by sociologists in the United States...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionSociologist
Date of Birth26 September 1892
CountryUnited States of America
[History is] the story of the magnificent rear-guard action fought during several thousand years by dogma against curiosity.
When the last Puritan has disappeared from the earth, the man of science will take his place as a killjoy, and we shall be given the same old advice but for different reasons.
Most of us can remember a time when a birthday - especially if it was one's own - brightened the world as if a second sun has risen.
Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with.
I sometimes suspect that half our difficulties are imaginary and that if we kept quiet about them they would disappear.