Latour, Bruno

"Responsibility emerges from our entanglement with multiple networks."

"The modern world is populated by hybrids we refuse to acknowledge."

"Objects shape human conduct as much as humans shape objects."

"Science produces certainty through the multiplication of mediators."

"To understand politics, follow the technical controversies."

"The social world is built through countless small acts of translation."

"Modernity promised purity; it delivered hybridity."

"We must become comfortable with the strange alliances between humans and things."

"The laboratory is a space where facts and values become inseparable."

"To ignore non-human actors is to render ourselves powerless."

"The question of progress must be replaced by the question of composition."

"Facts do not speak for themselves; they are made to speak through networks."

"The destruction of the environment reflects our refusal to acknowledge interdependence."

"Objects are not mere tools; they are mediators that transform their users."

"Modern thought rests on a hidden theology of nature and society."

"To compose the common world requires recognizing our obligations to things."

"The politics of nature cannot be separated from the nature of politics."

"Knowledge accumulation is always accumulation of connections."

"Certainty arises not from secure foundations but from sturdy networks."

"We are all responsible for the technical systems we inhabit."

"The question is not whether to have relations with things, but how to do so justly."

"Modernity is a crisis because it denies the existence of its own hybrids."

"To become modern is to become increasingly entangled with non-human actors."

"Facts emerge from controversy; they are born in conflict, not found in innocence."

"The fate of the modern world depends on our ability to compose with non-humans."

"Objects gather; they are not simply gathered by human subjects."

"The social is neither more nor less real than the technical."

"To understand our world, we must study the invisible networks that sustain it."

"Agency is distributed across networks of human and non-human actors."

"The question of truth must be replaced by the question of composition."