Science Quotes

"Facts are made, not found. The making is the interesting part."

"To be modern is not to escape nature, but to manage it in particular ways."

"Facts are achievements, not declarations. They require work to maintain."

"The body is not a surface on which diseases appear, but an achievement of medical practice."

"We make reality through our classifications, measurements, and modes of attention."

"The world is brought into being through our ongoing engagements with it."

"Facts do not speak for themselves; they are made to speak through careful work."

"Facts are not foundations, but outcomes of laborious practices of making and maintaining."

"Knowledge is always embodied, always situated, always relational."

"Facts are not neutral; they are laden with values and implications."

"Bodies are not closed systems, but are open to the world and to others."

"Science reveals the mysteries we once thought unknowable."

"Science is the systematic practice of honest curiosity."

"Nature is not hidden and waiting to be unveiled by science; it is actively produced through our practices and narratives."

"What gets called science is always already cultural, political, and partial."

"Science is not about discovering truth but about producing knowledge that matters."

"We must take seriously the material and semiotic agency of nonhuman others."

"Science is not about discovering truth; it is about creating stable networks."

"The most important discoveries are often invisible to us at first."

"Space and time are not neutral containers but active participants in the production of meaning."

"Evolution operates through difference and repetition with variation."

"Materiality is always active and generative, never passive."

"Science is organized knowledge."

"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."

"Science is the poetry of reality."

"The world is not divided between subjects and objects, but between different types of collectives."

"Science is a collective enterprise requiring constant negotiation."

"The laboratory is not a place of pure reason; it is a hybrid space."

"Symmetry between human and non-human actors is essential to understanding."

"We must account for the work done by non-human agents."