Abstract:This paper systematically analyzes the theory of national academy of sciences, based on the core opinions of sociology of science, and combined with governance thought. The main conclusions: Firstly, basis of national academy of sciences is independence, which relies on the science norms and laws as the governance mechanism to efficiently achieve the innovation and dissemination. The key point of governance is how to arrange the academic power and administrative power in the organization. Relatively, the strong and independence academic power and weak but normative is an ideal gambling result. Secondly, the distinguishing characteristics of Chinese Academy of Sciences show high monopoly to the resource and administrative governance. Thirdly, although Merton School get some criticism, the core of its ideas consist of the basic theory of modern national academy of sciences governance, and are still our efficient tool for studying the science and science institution.