Bruno Latour Quotes

If One Looks At The Works Of Newton To Einstein, They Were Never Scientists In The Way Modernity Understands The Term.

You Who Are On The Inside, Don't Condemn My Lack Of Faith Too Quickly; You Who Are On The Outside, Don't Be Too Quick To Mock My Overcredulity; You Who Are Indifferent, Don't Be Too Quick To Wax Ironic About My Perpetual Hesitations.

The Composition Of A Common World Would Be The Definition Of Politics.

My Kingdom For A More Embodied Body

I Have Sought To Offer Humanists A Detailed Analysis Of A Technology Sufficiently Magnificent And Spiritual To Convince Them That The Machines By Which They Are Surrounded Are Cultural Artifacts Worthy Of Their Attention And Respect.

Scientists Are Very Much Entangled In Their Culture And This Culture Is Not Pristine, Untouched By Other Cultures And Practices.

My Interest Is That There Is A Disconnect Between The Science And The Size Of The Threat That People Mention About Nature, The Planet And The Climate, And The Emotion That This Triggers. So We Are Supposed To Be Extremely Frightened People, But Despite That We Appear To Sleep Pretty Well.

We Would Be Better Off Thinking Of Nature As A Tiger Than As A Docile And Compliant Automaton That Can Never Threaten Our Survival.

India Is A Reservoir Of Alternative Interpretations Of What The Global Is, And These Ways Of Viewing The World Need To Be Exposed.

Science Does Not Enter A Chaotic Society To Put Order Into It Anymore, To Simplify Its Composition, And To Put An End To Controversies. It Does Enter It, But To Add New Uncertain Ingredients... To All The Other Ingredients That Make Up The Collective Experiments. When Scientists Add Their Findings To The Mix, They Do Not Put An End To Politics; They Add New Ingredients To The Collective Process.

Technology Is Society Made Durable.

Reality Is What Resists.