Latour, Bruno

"The work of purification continues to produce new impurities"

"Science is collective experimentation, not the isolated pursuit of truth"

"Objects deserve recognition as participants in our political communities"

"Modernity failed not because it tried to purify but because it denied its hybrids"

"We must become accountable to all the beings whose lives we shape"

"The social cannot be explained by reducing it to individual psychology"

"Materiality matters; things are not passive reflections of human intentions"

"To understand technology is to understand how it remakes the world and us"

"Networks are not metaphors; they are the literal fabric of our existence"

"We are all hybrids in a world of hybrids trying to maintain impossible purities"

"The ecological crisis forces us to confront what modernity sought to deny"

"Explanation must give way to tracing and following in our sciences"

"Power is exercised not by domination but by the ability to enroll others"

"We must develop an anthropology that is humble before the complexity of things"

"Facts are not universal truths but situated achievements stabilized through work"

"Politics must expand to include all the non-human beings affected by our decisions"

"The future will be cosmopolitical or it will not be at all"

"We cannot understand modernity from within modernity; we must step aside"

"Objects speak to us if we learn to listen to their associations and histories"

"The distance between nature and culture was always an illusion of modernity"

"To live responsibly is to become aware of what our consumption involves"

"Innovation requires the careful orchestration of diverse actors and interests"

"We must replace the idea of society with the idea of association"

"The world is not waiting to be discovered; it is constantly made and remade"

"Modernity's violence lies in its denial of the violence it performs"

"To be political is to become responsible for the world we co-produce"

"Facts emerge from the patient work of alignment across multiple scales"

"We are all in the same boat, navigating networks we did not create"

"The laboratory demonstrates that nothing is natural; everything is constructed"

"Objects are frozen politics that we must learn to thaw and renegotiate"