Latour, Bruno

"We have never been modern."

"The world is not divided between subjects and objects, but between different types of collectives."

"An actor is what is made to act by many others."

"Objects are not just passive vessels; they are active participants in making the world."

"We must follow the actors themselves."

"Nature is not something that exists outside of culture; they are thoroughly entangled."

"The social is not a type of thing; it is a type of circulation."

"Facts are made, not discovered."

"Science is a collective enterprise requiring constant negotiation."

"Modernity promised to separate nature from society; it has done the opposite."

"We must become sensitive to the ways things assemble themselves."

"The laboratory is not a place of pure reason; it is a hybrid space."

"Power is not something you possess; it is something you exercise through networks."

"Every object tells a story of its making."

"The mediator transforms what it mediates."

"We are all responsible for the world we inhabit."

"Technology is not autonomous; it is enacted through human and non-human collectives."

"The invisible hand of the market is made of many visible hands."

"Art and science are not opposed; they are kindred practices of world-making."

"Climate change is not a nature problem; it is a political problem."

"We must learn to live as hybrids, neither purely modern nor pre-modern."

"The social order is contingent and contestable."

"Symmetry between human and non-human actors is essential to understanding."

"Objects hold us together more than ideologies do."

"We must become diplomats between different worlds."

"The network is the fundamental unit of existence."

"Bureaucracy is a technology of social ordering."

"Facts require witnessing to exist."

"The sacred and the profane are not categories that exist; they are effects of practice."

"We are always already implicated in the systems we study."