34 Quotes by Bruno Latour

The composition of a common world would be the definition of politics.

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.

We would be better off thinking of nature as a tiger than as a docile and compliant automaton that can never threaten our survival.

Technology is society made durable.

My kingdom for a more embodied body

Change the instruments and you will change the entire social theory that goes with them

Be not the one who debunks but the one who assembles, not the one who lifts the rugs from under the feet of the naive believers but the one who offers arenas in which to gather.

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.