Science Quotes

"The production of facts requires the careful alignment of materials, bodies, and institutions."

"Objects are not passive repositories of meaning; they actively shape human action."

"The production of knowledge is always a collective and material process."

"The world is made up of associations between entities that are themselves made through association."

"Objects are not in the world; they constitute the world through their relations and interactions."

"Facts are not found in nature; they are slowly and carefully constructed by assemblies of people and things."

"The laboratory is not a place apart from the world; it is deeply entangled with the social."

"Modern science does not discover pre-existing facts; it creates them through practice."

"To perform an experiment is to ask questions of nature, but nature also questions back."

"The laboratory extends far beyond its walls through the circulation of facts and instruments."

"Uncertainty is not a temporary state awaiting resolution; it is a permanent feature of knowledge."

"Science is a collective enterprise; credit should be distributed among all the actors involved."

"To study science is to study the social; the two cannot be separated."

"Objects have their own logic, their own trajectory, their own forms of agency."

"Science does not progress toward a final truth; it opens new questions and creates new puzzles."

"The laboratory is a place where the boundaries between nature and culture are actively constructed."

"Science and spirituality need not be in opposition; both seek to understand reality more deeply."

"The social is not a type of material but a circulating reference that never stays still."

"The scientist is not objective; they are deeply implicated in the world they study."

"Facts are socially constructed, but not merely socially constructed."

"The laboratory is the engine of modern power."

"The making of facts requires work, infrastructure, and collective effort."

"Modern science did not liberate us from illusion; it created new forms of attachment."

"Science and politics are inseparable; they always were."

"Facts are accomplished through work, not discovered in nature."

"Science produces certainty through the multiplication of mediators."

"The laboratory is a space where facts and values become inseparable."

"Certainty arises not from secure foundations but from sturdy networks."

"Facts emerge from controversy; they are born in conflict, not found in innocence."

"Facts gain their solidity through repeated association and reinforcement."