—“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”
― Bruno Latour (1947-2022)
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.”
― Bruno Latour (1947-2022)
“There is no control and no all-powerful creator, either – no more ‘God’ than man – but there is care, scruple, cautiousness, attention, contemplation, hesitation and revival.”
― Bruno Latour (1947-2022)
“Philosophy is not in the business of explaining anything. Actual occasions explain what happened, not philosophy.”
― Bruno Latour (1947-2022)
“The various manifestations of socialism destroyed both their peoples and their ecosystems, whereas the powers of the North and the West have been able to save their peoples and some of their countrysides by destroying the rest of the world and reducing it's people to abject poverty.”
― Bruno Latour
"Technology is society made durable."
― Bruno Latour (1947-2022)
“In other words, everything happens only once, and at one place.”
― Bruno Latour (1947-2022)
"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 (1947-2022)
"If one looks at the works of Newton to Einstein, they were never scientists in the way modernity understands the term."
― Bruno Latour (1947-2022)
"The first lesson the coronavirus has taught us is also the most astounding: we have actually proven that it is possible, in a few weeks, to put an economic system on hold everywhere in the world and at the same time, a system that we were told it was impossible to slow down or redirect."
― Bruno Latour (1947-2022)
"science is more complex and messy than to understand how the climate works. It is an illusion of certainty to state that we fully understand it, a remnant of the ideal of science."
― Bruno Latour (1947-2022)