Science Quotes

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"Science without ethics is merely the pursuit of knowledge for its own sake."
Ahmed, Sara
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"The posthuman perspective embraces our entanglement with technology and nature."
Braidotti, Rosi
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"We need feminist approaches to science and technology, not to abandon them but to transform them."
Braidotti, Rosi
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"Science is the systematic pursuit of truth through careful observation."
Law, John
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"Intra-actions enact boundaries and exclude something in the production of intelligibility."
Barad, Karen
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"Matter is not a thing but a doing—a congealing of agency."
Barad, Karen
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"Measuring devices are not neutral; they are part of the phenomenon being measured."
Barad, Karen
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"Quantum mechanics teaches us that reality is fundamentally relational."
Barad, Karen
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"Phenomena are not located in individual things but in the space between them."
Barad, Karen
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"The apparatus shapes what can be known about reality."
Barad, Karen
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"Difference-making is constitutive of reality itself."
Barad, Karen
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"Matter is fundamentally creative and generative."
Barad, Karen
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"The separation between observer and observed is a problem, not a starting point."
Barad, Karen
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"Quantum entanglement is not just a physical phenomenon but an ontological principle."
Barad, Karen
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"Matter is not passive; it actively participates in the production of phenomena."
Barad, Karen
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"Intra-action is a neologism that emphasizes the inseparability of agencies in the production of phenomena."
Barad, Karen
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"Matter is not a noun but a verb—it is always in the process of becoming."
Barad, Karen
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"The apparatus is not a neutral tool but an active participant in what becomes knowable."
Barad, Karen
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"The meaning of quantum mechanics lies in its radical rethinking of the nature of reality."
Barad, Karen
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"Matter has agency, and we must learn to respond to it."
Barad, Karen
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"Intra-actions produce the distinctions that matter—literally and figuratively."
Barad, Karen
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"The specificity of the apparatus determines what can be known."
Barad, Karen
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"We must account for the role of the apparatus in bringing phenomena into being."
Barad, Karen
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"Matter is not a passive substance but an active participant in the production of phenomena."
Barad, Karen
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"The universe is intelligible through our material engagements with it."
Barad, Karen
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"Matter does not exist prior to relationality; relationality brings matter into being."
Barad, Karen
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"The apparatus shapes not only what we can know but what we can be."
Barad, Karen
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"Matter is creative and generative; it exceeds our attempts to contain it."
Barad, Karen
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"The body is not a thing, but a doing. It is an achievement, an accomplishment, a performance."
Mol, Annemarie
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"The world is flat if you make it flat through your practices and measurements."
Mol, Annemarie