Science Quotes

"To study something is to change it; pure observation is impossible."

"Bodies matter, literally and figuratively."

"The body is a multiplicity that cannot be unified."

"The real is not discovered but enacted through practice."

"Objects are relations that have solidified."

"The real and the social are not opposed but intertwined."

"Objects are never simply given; they are always constructed through networks of relations"

"Facts are not discovered; they are constructed through collective experimentation"

"The laboratory does not capture nature; it produces a particular version of it"

"Empirical studies of science show that facts are stabilized through vast networks"

"The laboratory is a place where new realities are brought into being"

"Facts are constructed through the alignment of multiple actors and interests"

"Science is collective experimentation, not the isolated pursuit of truth"

"Facts emerge from the patient work of alignment across multiple scales"

"The laboratory demonstrates that nothing is natural; everything is constructed"

"We live in a time when ecology must become the primary science"

"We must learn to see networks as the fundamental structure of reality"

"The boundary between nature and culture is constantly being redrawn"

"The study of science is ultimately the study of power"

"The observer is never separate from the observed"

"We have outsourced our thinking to machines while claiming efficiency."

"We must learn to think of objects as mediators, not mere intermediaries in human action."

"The sociotechnical is not a compromise; it is the fundamental reality of how the world works."

"Scientific facts are not discoveries; they are constructions that require the support of networks."

"Objects have their own agency and must be understood as active participants in the world."

"We cannot understand science by studying scientists alone; we must study the entire network."

"Society cannot be reduced to human actors; non-humans are essential to its functioning."

"The work of science is to create stable representations that can travel and be trusted."

"Science is a collective enterprise that cannot be understood individualistically."

"The work of science is not to discover truth but to construct stable representations."