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Bruno Latour is a French sociologist renowned for his contributions to the sociology of scientific knowledge. His research focuses on scientific practice, knowledge production, and the interactions between science and society. Latour's work has had a profound impact on understanding how science is constructed and communicated.

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“In the letters section, a Scot reminds his readers of the ‘Glorious Alliance’ between France and Mary Queen of Scots, which explains why Scotland should not share the rabid Europhobia of Englishmen.”

Politics Scotland Brexit Eu

Book:Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory

Source: Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory

“Man macht sich gar nicht klar genug, dass die gesamte Politik der Gegenwart auf das Problem der Klimaleugnung fokussiert ist.”

Klima Elitenpolitik Klimawandelleugnung

Book:Das terrestrische Manifest

Source: Das terrestrische Manifest

“Change the instruments and you will change the entire social theory that goes with them”

Social Theory Instruments Social Theory

Author:Bruno Latour

“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.”

Doe Ends Order Process Findings Scientist Add Experiments Collectives Ingredients Composition Uncertain Controversy Chaotic Simplify

Author:Bruno Latour

“Technology is society made durable.”

Made Technology

Book:Sociologie de la traduction: Textes fondateurs

Source: Sociologie de la traduction: Textes fondateurs

“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.”

Feet Offers Believer Lifts Arena Naive

Author: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.”

Thinking Would Be Survival Tigers Better Off Docile

Author:Bruno Latour

“My kingdom for a more embodied body”

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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.”

Spiritual Attention Technology Offers Machines Worthy Analysis Convince Magnificent Artifacts Attention And Respect

Author:Bruno Latour

“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”

World Facts Form Ocean Uncertainty Islands Lakes Continents Vast Ocean

Book:Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory

Source: Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory

“If one looks at the works of Newton to Einstein, they were never scientists in the way modernity understands the term.”

Ifs Way Looks Term Scientist Modernity Newton

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“Reality is what resists.”

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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.”

Ironic Perpetual Indifferent Hesitation Mock Lack Of Faith

Author: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, and the emotion that this triggers. So we are supposed to be extremely frightened people, but despite that we appear to sleep pretty well.”

People Wells Interest Sleep Emotion Planets Threat Climate Size Despite Supposed To Be Frightened Triggers

Author: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.”

World Way Needs India Alternatives Interpretation Exposed Reservoirs

Author:Bruno Latour

“Scientists are very much entangled in their culture and this culture is not pristine, untouched by other cultures and practices.”

Culture Practice Scientist Other Cultures Pristine

Author:Bruno Latour

“The composition of a common world would be the definition of politics.”

World Would Be Common Definitions Composition

Author:Bruno Latour

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Born: June 22, 1947
Known for: Sociologist
Quotes: 17

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