Science Quotes

"The body is a meeting place of multiple realities."

"Knowledge claims have consequences for real bodies in real worlds."

"The body is a site of knowledge, not merely an object of study."

"We are responsible for the effects of our knowledge."

"Science is not the discovery of nature but the interrogation of it."

"We cannot know the world without being part of the world, without being entangled with it."

"Matter is not a substance but a doing - a congealing of agency."

"Phenomena are the fundamental units of reality, not independent objects."

"Scientific objectivity is not about distance but about accountability to the material world."

"Iterative intra-actions reconfigure both the observer and the observed."

"Material practices have performative effects that matter profoundly."

"Quantum mechanics reveals that observation is not passive but constitutive of reality."

"The apparatus of observation shapes what can appear as real or meaningful."

"The cuts we make in defining phenomena have real, material consequences."

"The natural and the social are not separate domains but deeply intertwined."

"Agential realism insists that human and non-human agencies are inextricably entangled."

"Matter matters - it is not passive or inert but active and generative."

"The world is not waiting to be discovered but is continually being made through our practices."

"Material agency exceeds human intentionality and control."

"The apparatus is not something that observes the world but something that enacts a specific materialization of it."

"Quantum indeterminacy is not a limitation of our knowledge but a fundamental feature of reality."

"Matter is not inert; it responds, it matters, it participates in the unfolding of the world."

"New materialisms insist that matter is not a backdrop for human activity but an active force."

"We are meeting the universe halfway - not discovering a pre-existing world but enacting particular configurations of it."

"Matter is not opposed to meaning; materiality is always saturated with significance and meaning-making."

"Organisms are not born; they are made through worldly encounters."

"Feminist science studies is about better objectivity, not less."

"Agency is distributed across human and non-human actors."

"The observer is always inside the experiment."

"Science reveals the mechanisms of the world, but wisdom teaches us how to live in it."