Latour, Bruno

"The hybrid forms of our world cannot be explained by dividing them into pure categories."

"We must become comfortable with ontological multiplicity; there is no single world."

"The past is not behind us; it is woven into the present through multiple networks."

"To trace a network is to trace the movement of entities through time and space."

"Modern science does not discover pre-existing facts; it creates them through practice."

"The environment is not a background to human activity; it is an active participant."

"We are not subjects acting upon objects; we are all caught up in the same webs of relation."

"Humanism has failed because it placed humans at the center instead of recognizing the agency of all things."

"The distinction between the real and the constructed is far more blurred than we assume."

"Every translation inevitably produces something new; fidelity is impossible and undesirable."

"The social cannot be explained by reference to social forces alone; we must include all actors."

"To perform an experiment is to ask questions of nature, but nature also questions back."

"Power is not possessed by individuals; it emerges from the capacity to mobilize others."

"We live in a world of proliferating entities, and our categories must expand accordingly."

"The notion of an innocent nature waiting to be discovered is a modern myth."

"Modernism promised liberation from tradition, but it created new forms of bondage."

"To follow the actors is to acknowledge that they are smarter than our theories about them."

"Networks are not the final explanation; they are what we must describe when we refuse other frameworks."

"The collective includes humans and non-humans in a symmetrical fashion."

"Facts are black boxes; once they are established, we forget the work that went into their making."

"The laboratory extends far beyond its walls through the circulation of facts and instruments."

"We cannot escape modernity by returning to nature; we must invent a new way of being together."

"Mediators are those actors who transform what they translate; they are not neutral conduits."

"To be political is to gather, to assemble, to make a world in common."

"The modern distinction between objectivity and subjectivity obscures the entanglement of both."

"Uncertainty is not a temporary state awaiting resolution; it is a permanent feature of knowledge."

"Objects are not mute; they speak through their relations, their histories, their trajectories."

"The parliament of things must include not just humans but all the entities that compose our world."

"To take things seriously is to follow them, to trace their associations, to acknowledge their agency."

"We are not observers of the world; we are participants in its ongoing construction."