Latour, Bruno

"To trace is to become attentive to the web of relations that constitutes reality"

"Truth emerges from the work of making visible what is hidden in practice"

"We cannot step outside networks to judge them; we are always already inside"

"The social sciences must become sciences of translation, not explanation"

"Actors are what is made to act by other actors, not autonomous agents"

"The concept of nature has been one of modernity's most destructive fictions"

"To care for something is to become responsible for its consequences"

"Innovation involves the heterogeneous assembly of human and non-human elements"

"We must learn to think with the world, not about the world from outside"

"The political ecology movement reveals what modernity sought to hide"

"Empirical studies of science show that facts are stabilized through vast networks"

"To understand society is to understand how diverse elements come to coexist"

"The distinction between representation and reality collapses under scrutiny"

"We are responsible for the world we co-create through our associations"

"Modernity's great achievement was hiding its own hybridity from itself"

"Ethics begins when we acknowledge our entanglement with other beings"

"The laboratory is a place where new realities are brought into being"

"Power flows through networks; it is not possessed by individuals"

"To be modern is to deny the modern condition of universal mediation"

"We must follow the smoke trails of associations that bind worlds together"

"Objects are materialized politics that shape our actions and beliefs"

"The future belongs to those who can orchestrate heterogeneous networks"

"Understanding requires becoming attentive to what things do and how they do it"

"Nature is not a domain to be conquered; it is a collective to be negotiated with"

"Facts are constructed through the alignment of multiple actors and interests"

"We live in a Parliament of Things that must decide its common future"

"The modern divide between subject and object has obscured our true condition"

"To trace networks is to become aware of our complicity in their constitution"

"Innovation emerges not from individual genius but from network reconfiguration"

"We must learn to be generous toward the world and all its actors"