Callon, Michel

"Uncertainty is not a failure of knowledge but a persistent feature of existence."

"Standards are the result of protracted negotiations among diverse actors."

"We must follow the mediators, not the intermediaries."

"Performance and knowledge are intimately intertwined."

"The social is not a domain but a circulation of entities."

"To study science in action is to study the construction of the real."

"Normativity is embedded in the very fabric of technical systems."

"Displacement and replacement are fundamental to all processes of innovation."

"The organization of knowledge reflects power relations and interests."

"Fragility and robustness are two sides of the same coin."

"We are all obligated to the networks that sustain us."

"The work of organizing is never finished; it is perpetually in process."

"Value is not inherent but produced through chains of translation."

"The laboratory extends far beyond its physical walls."

"Stability requires constant effort and vigilance."

"Identity is not a prerequisite but an achievement."

"We must learn to be multiple, to exist in different contexts and configurations."

"The real is continuously performed and reproduced through collective action."

"Delegation is the fundamental operation of all organization."

"Absence is as significant as presence in understanding networks."

"Technical systems are moral projects embedded with values and interests."

"Difference and divergence are productive resources, not obstacles to overcome."

"The politics of representation are inescapable in all forms of knowledge production."

"We must resist the temptation to reduce complexity to simplicity."

"Innovation requires the ability to move between different worlds and languages."

"Intermediaries disappear while mediators leave traces."

"Collective action is the foundation of all social phenomena."

"The economy is neither purely rational nor purely irrational, but distributed."

"We are always in a state of becoming, never fully formed."

"Normativity and description cannot be neatly separated."