Latour, Bruno

"The laboratory is a place where the boundaries between nature and culture are actively constructed."

"We must learn to think with things, not just about things."

"Power operates through networks; it is not something that can be localized or possessed."

"The modern world has sacrificed wisdom for knowledge; we must find a way to recover both."

"To make a world is to gather, to compose, to assemble diverse elements into a precarious whole."

"We are all implicated in the networks that sustain our existence; there is no escape from responsibility."

"The future is not predetermined; it depends on the associations and alliances we forge now."

"To follow the actors is to practice a radical humility about our own knowledge and authority."

"We have never been modern because modernity is a collage of incompatible materials."

"The social is not a type of material but a circulating reference that never stays still."

"Objects have agency; they are not mere passive receptacles for human intention."

"To trace associations is to practice a form of radical empiricism."

"We must learn to think with hybrid collectives rather than pure categories."

"The scientist is not objective; they are deeply implicated in the world they study."

"Networks are composed of human and non-human actors equally."

"We cannot separate nature from culture; they are thoroughly entangled."

"Critique is no longer a tool of enlightenment but an obstacle to understanding."

"The modern dichotomy between subject and object must be overcome."

"Actors are defined by what they make possible for others."

"We live in a Parliament of Things, not a Parliament of Men."

"Facts are socially constructed, but not merely socially constructed."

"The laboratory is the engine of modern power."

"Mediation is more fundamental than representation."

"We must follow the actors and let them define the social for us."

"The making of facts requires work, infrastructure, and collective effort."

"Objects gather us; they are the mediators of our associations."

"To be modern is to be caught between incommensurable worlds."

"Plastics have become the material condition of modern life."

"The Anthropocene marks the end of the nature-culture divide."

"We must learn to compose the common world together."