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.
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… - Bruno Latour
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…
- Bruno Latour
If one looks at the works of Newton to Einstein, they were never scientists in the way modernity understands the term. - Bruno Latour
If one looks at the works of Newton to Einstein, they were never scientists in the way modernity understands the term.
We would be better off thinking of nature as a tiger than as a docile and compliant automaton that can never threaten our survival. - Bruno Latour
We would be better off thinking of nature as a tiger than as a docile and compliant automaton that can never threaten our survival.
Scientists are very much entangled in their culture and this culture is not pristine, untouched by other cultures and practices. - Bruno Latour
Scientists are very much entangled in their culture and this culture is not pristine, untouched by other cultures and practices.
Change the instruments and you will change the entire social theory that goes with them - Bruno Latour
Change the instruments and you will change the entire social theory that goes with them
India is a reservoir of alternative interpretations of what the global is, and these ways of viewing the world need to be exposed. - Bruno Latour
India is a reservoir of alternative interpretations of what the global is, and these ways of viewing the world need to be exposed.
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 offer… - Bruno Latour
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 offer…
Reality is what resists. - Bruno Latour
Reality is what resists.
Technology is society made durable. - Bruno Latour
Technology is society made durable.
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