Science Quotes

"Science is the social construction of objective reality."

"The laboratory extends far beyond its physical boundaries."

"The social does not explain technology; technology helps explain the social."

"The boundary between the human and non-human is porous."

"The laboratory is a space where the social and natural are made and remade."

"The body is not a thing, but a doing. It is an achievement, an accomplishment, a process."

"Science is not the discovery of pre-existing facts, but the enactment of realities."

"Things achieve their reality through their relations and uses, not through their essence."

"To enact a disease is to enact a particular set of boundaries, definitions, and treatments."

"To study the body is to study the production of reality through material-semiotic practices."

"The body is a technology, and like all technologies, it is political and contestable."

"Matter matters. It is not merely the stage upon which history unfolds; it is an active participant in the unfolding of history."

"The separate existence of space and time is a remnant of pre-relativistic thinking."

"Quantum mechanics reveals that the classical distinction between subject and object is untenable."

"We are entangled with the world we seek to understand; we are not separate observers."

"The apparatus is not a container within which nature reveals itself; the apparatus is part of the enactment of nature."

"Matter and meaning are inseparably intertwined in the constitution of reality."

"Specific material configurations produce specific material realities."

"Science is a productive practice that generates knowledge and reality simultaneously."

"Matter is not a given; it is continuously produced and reproduced through practices and intra-actions."

"We cannot stand outside the world and observe it objectively; objectivity is a material effect of intra-actions."

"The cut between measuring instrument and measured object is not pre-given but constituted through intra-actions."

"Material phenomena are intra-acts rather than inter-acts; they cannot be reduced to interactions between pre-existing entities."

"The apparatus is not neutral; it is productive of the phenomena it measures and the knowledge it generates."

"Matter is neither passive nor determinate; it is actively engaged in the process of becoming."

"Spacetimemattering is the proper framework for understanding how worlds come into being."

"The cut between observer and observed is itself an intra-action that must be carefully accounted for."

"Things do not have inherent properties; their properties emerge through specific intra-actions."

"The apparatus is part of the natural world; there is no transcendent vantage point from which to observe nature."

"Matter is not a stage; it is an active participant in the making of phenomena, meanings, and bodies."