Latour, Bruno

"Purification is the hallmark of modern thought, yet it always fails."

"Technical objects are hybrids that blur the line between nature and society."

"The history of science is not a march toward truth but a proliferation of connections."

"Power emerges from the coordination of heterogeneous actors."

"We are all responsible for the worlds we bring into being."

"Technology is not applied science; they co-evolve together."

"The political ecology of things must become our primary concern."

"Facts gain their authority from networks of practice and collective agreement."

"Modern science did not liberate us from illusion; it created new forms of attachment."

"We must learn to be diplomatic toward both humans and non-humans."

"The invisible hand of markets is always visible to those who look."

"Institutions are gathering places for heterogeneous actors."

"The global is not a scale but a specific type of local connection."

"To understand the present, we must study laboratories and testing grounds."

"Nature is not something that stands apart; it is always already cultural."

"The division between expert and layperson is a political achievement."

"Ecological catastrophe results from the denial of our entanglement with things."

"We live in networks of translation, not in a transparent social realm."

"The question is not whether objects have agency, but how they exercise it."

"Science and politics are inseparable; they always were."

"To follow actors is to embrace a form of humility before complexity."

"The past is not fixed; it is continuously rewritten through present associations."

"Objects are the glue that holds collectives together."

"Modern institutions arose from the need to manage hybrid networks."

"We cannot step outside networks to gain a view from nowhere."

"The factory is where nature and culture are thoroughly mixed."

"Peace requires learning to negotiate with non-human actors."

"Facts are accomplished through work, not discovered in nature."

"The crisis of modernity is the crisis of purification itself."

"To map an actor-network is to reveal the hidden infrastructure of the social."