Latour, Bruno

"Innovation requires translation between different communities."

"The past is not dead; it circulates through the present."

"Nature does not exist independent of the practices that constitute it."

"Authority is not centralized; it is distributed through networks."

"The proliferation of hybrids requires new political frameworks."

"We must account for the work done by non-human agents."

"Knowledge production is always a collective affair."

"The distinction between the social and the technical is impossible to maintain."

"Every claim to truth requires a laboratory or equivalent space of demonstration."

"The modern constitution is dissolving before our eyes."

"We must learn to be attentive to the composition of the world."

"Objects are ambassadors from invisible worlds."

"The social is a movement, not a thing."

"Translation is the fundamental operation of all politics."

"Facts are achievements, not givens."

"We live in a world of proliferating hybrids."

"Science is the social construction of objective reality."

"The good life requires negotiation with non-human others."

"History is not behind us; it circulates around us."

"We are responsible for the world we co-create."

"The political is everywhere, not just in governments."

"Objects gather us together in specific ways."

"Nature is a collective of human and non-human beings."

"The laboratory extends far beyond its physical boundaries."

"Power is exercised through the alignment of heterogeneous actors."

"Innovation requires the negotiation of difference."

"Truth is not a correspondence with reality but a way of ordering it."

"We must learn to live with uncertainty and partial knowledge."

"The modern attempt to separate nature from culture has failed."

"Networks are the substance of the world, not mere descriptions of it."