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