Knowledge Quotes
From ancient scholars to modern scientists, these quotes explore what it means to learn and to know.
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"Knowledge is never neutral; it is always political."Mol, Annemarie
"To know is to intervene; knowledge is never passive."Mol, Annemarie
"Onto-epistemology - the study of being and knowing are not separable; they are mutually implicated."Barad, Karen
"Diffraction offers a new way of thinking about difference and identity."Barad, Karen
"We must attend to the material dimensions of knowledge production."Barad, Karen
"The question is not how to represent a world that exists independently, but how we participate in its becoming."Barad, Karen
"The body is not a passive container but an active participant in knowledge-making."Barad, Karen
"Scientific knowledge is always situated, partial, and accountable to the material world."Barad, Karen
"Diffraction helps us see how difference emerges through relational configurations."Barad, Karen
"We must develop epistemologies that account for the agency of matter."Barad, Karen
"Diffraction reveals how difference is produced through relational specificity, not through external comparison."Barad, Karen
"The boundaries we draw around phenomena have real effects on what can be known and what must be forgotten."Barad, Karen
"Scientific knowledge emerges through iterative intra-actions that reconfigure both knower and known."Barad, Karen
"Diffraction is not about sameness or difference but about how patterns of significance are produced through iterative configurations."Barad, Karen
"We must attend to the material conditions of knowledge production."Grosz, Elizabeth
"The genealogy of concepts reveals their contingency."Grosz, Elizabeth
"The map is never the territory it seeks to represent."Grosz, Elizabeth
"Knowledge is always situated and perspectival."Grosz, Elizabeth
"Situated knowledges are about responsibility and accountability."Haraway, Donna
"Knowledge is always situated and partial."Haraway, Donna
"We are always implicated in the worlds we study."Haraway, Donna
"The apparatus of knowledge-making shapes what can be known."Haraway, Donna
"Knowledge without compassion becomes a weapon."Ahmed, Sara
"Knowledge becomes wisdom when we understand its limits."Ahmed, Sara
"Brown desire is a form of knowledge production."Muñoz, José Esteban
"The archive teaches us that absence is as powerful as presence."Muñoz, José Esteban
"Knowledge is always partial, situated, and embodied."Muñoz, José Esteban
"The minoritarian subject has access to other ways of knowing."Muñoz, José Esteban
"The posthuman subject is not about abandoning humanity but expanding our understanding of what it means to be alive."Braidotti, Rosi
"We must embrace complexity and resist the urge to simplify."Braidotti, Rosi