Quotes by Bruno Latour - Page 1

Reality is what resists.
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Technology is society made durable.
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Made
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My kingdom for a more embodied body
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The composition of a common world would be the definition of politics.
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Change the instruments and you will change the entire social theory that goes with them
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If one looks at the works of Newton to Einstein, they were never scientists in the way modernity understands the term.
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Modernity
Newton
Term
Way
Einstein
Scientists
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Scientists are very much entangled in their culture and this culture is not pristine, untouched by other cultures and practices.
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Other Cultures
Practice
Pristine
Scientist
Cultures
Entangled
Practices
Scientists
Untouched
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India is a reservoir of alternative interpretations of what the global is, and these ways of viewing the world need to be exposed.
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Alternatives
Exposed
India
Needs
Alternative
Interpretations
Reservoir
Viewing
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We would be better off thinking of nature as a tiger than as a docile and compliant automaton that can never threaten our survival.
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Survival
Thinking
Would Be
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Be not the one who debunks but the one who assembles, not the one who lifts the rugs from under the feet of the naive believers but the one who offers arenas in which to gather.
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Arena
Believer
Feet
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The world is not a solid continent of facts sprinkled by a few lakes of uncertainties, but a vast ocean of uncertainties speckled by a few islands of calibrated and stabilized forms
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I have sought to offer humanists a detailed analysis of a technology sufficiently magnificent and spiritual to convince them that the machines by which they are surrounded are cultural artifacts worthy of their attention and respect.
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Technology
Attention
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You who are on the inside, don't condemn my lack of faith too quickly; you who are on the outside, don't be too quick to mock my overcredulity; you who are indifferent, don't be too quick to wax ironic about my perpetual hesitations.
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Hesitation
Indifferent
Ironic
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The only shibboleth the West has is science. It is the premise of modernity and it defines itself as a rationality capable of, indeed requiring separation from politics, religion and really, society. Modernisation is to work towards this.
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Capable
Modernity
Rationality
Separation
West
Defines
Indeed
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Requiring
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My interest is that there is a disconnect between the science and the size of the threat that people mention about nature, the planet and the climate, and the emotion that this triggers. So we are supposed to be extremely frightened people, but despite that we appear to sleep pretty well.
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Science
Climate
Despite
Emotion
Frightened
People
Size
Sleep
Triggers
Pretty
Appear
Disconnect
Extremely
Mention
Planet
Supposed
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Science does not enter a chaotic society to put order into it anymore, to simplify its composition, and to put an end to controversies. It does enter it, but to add new uncertain ingredients... to all the other ingredients that make up the collective experiments. When scientists add their findings to the mix, they do not put an end to politics; they add new ingredients to the collective process.
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Doe
Order
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