Callon, Michel

"The study of science is ultimately the study of power"

"Objects have a social life; they are not inert"

"To act is to enter into relations with others"

"The local and global are not opposites but co-constructed"

"Controversy reveals the hidden work of consensus-building"

"We are responsible for the worlds we help bring into being"

"Stability is an achievement, not a starting point"

"The past is not fixed; it is constantly renegotiated in the present"

"Innovation requires the ability to hold contradictions together"

"Power is not possessed but performed through networks"

"To study society is to study the construction of reality itself"

"Meaning is not found but fabricated through interaction"

"The question is not whether something is real, but what it does"

"Networks are sites of both constraint and possibility"

"We must learn to live with uncertainty and incompleteness"

"The economy is embedded in networks of power and meaning"

"Distance is not given but continuously produced through work"

"Every act of representation is an act of violence"

"The observer is never separate from the observed"

"To map a network is to remake the world"

"Desire is socially constructed and socially productive"

"The authentic is what we collectively believe to be authentic"

"Complexity is not a problem to be solved but a condition to be embraced"

"Every entity carries within it the traces of its construction"

"To be human is to be entangled in networks of our own making"

"The margin is where new possibilities emerge"

"Agency is distributed, not concentrated in individuals"

"We must attend to the silent work that holds the world together"

"Truth is what survives the test of network contestation"

"The past haunts the present in unexpected ways"