Top 40 Latour Quotes
#1. Father Latour began to tell them about his friendly relations with Protestants in Ohio, but they had not room in their minds for two ideas.
Willa Cather
#2. [Bruno] Latour argues that one of the foundational gestures of western modernity has been the effort to formulate and police a heightened antimony between nonhuman nature and human culture.
-- Randall Styers, Making Magic, p. 17
Randall Styers
#3. And here I want to interject and say that Heidegger is an absolute occasionalist and has no theory of time despite "time" being included in the title Being and Time
Bruno Latour
#4. 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.
Bruno Latour
#5. My mother always advised me not to trust a dead person.
Jayde Scott
#6. 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.
Bruno Latour
#7. Scientists are very much entangled in their culture and this culture is not pristine, untouched by other cultures and practices.
Bruno Latour
#8. Change the instruments and you will change the entire social theory that goes with them
Bruno Latour
#9. If it hadn't been for Jazz, there wouldn't be no rock and roll.
Louis Armstrong
#10. Iran is nothing but trouble, and always has been that.
Jay Rockefeller
#11. Are you, or is someone you know, a gadget freak? If so, you doubtless know that Wednesday was iPhone 5 day, the day Apple unveiled its latest way for people to avoid actually speaking to or even looking at whoever they're with.
Paul Krugman
#12. 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
#13. Nancy Cartwright here in this School has written the funniest paper on scientific method ever, by taking the average advice from all the books about scientific method, and they are extreme banalities
Bruno Latour
#14. The mind does most of its best thinking when we aren't there. The answers are there in the morning.
Alain De Botton
#15. 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.
Bruno Latour
#16. 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
#18. If one looks at the works of Newton to Einstein, they were never scientists in the way modernity understands the term.
Bruno Latour
#19. 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.
Bruno Latour
#20. I think it's always important to put your own spin and bring your essence to whatever character you play.
Yvette Gonzalez-Nacer
#21. 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.
Bruno Latour
#22. Philosophy is not in the business of explaining anything. Actual occasions explain what happened, not philosophy.
Bruno Latour
#23. There is a fetishization of victimization in our culture. And I just am not interested in victimhood.
Alan Ball
#24. The composition of a common world would be the definition of politics.
Bruno Latour
#26. The experience of the race shows that we get our most important education not through books but through our work. We are developed by our daily task, or else demoralized by it, as by nothing else.
Anna Garlin Spencer
#27. Can't decide which life or career path is right for you? Maybe you don't have to! In The Renaissance Soul, Margaret Lobenstine offers inspiration, advice, and practical tips for people with more than one burning passion.
Laurence Boldt
#28. Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.
John Lubbock
#29. The best lessons a man ever learns are from his mistakes. It is not for want of schoolmasters that we are still ignorant.
Henry Ward Beecher
#30. Maybe he should have kept quiet about if he knew they couldn't stand it.
Is that what you do?
Caryl Churchill
#31. Alas, the historical name is 'actor-network-theory', a name that is so awkward, so confusing, so meaningless that it deserves to be kept.
Bruno Latour
#32. It is no bad thing to be a king-to see one's house enriched and one's authority enhanced.
Homer
#33. 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
#35. Machines are the concealed wishes of actants which have tamed forces so effectively that they no longer look like forces
Bruno Latour
#36. What is an organization actually, even in organization theory, even in the most classical sense in management, if not a serial redescription which starts again (and it's true) every morning.
Bruno Latour
#37. I am sure of this: I am not crying. It is just that stupid drops of water that comes out of my eyes, now and then.
Saravana Kumar Murugan
#38. Roland's heart seemed to twist like a rag inside his chest, and there was a moment to wonder how it could possibly go on beating in the face of this.
Stephen King
#39. 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
#40. In common with librarians the world over, the two women were used to dealing with a disproportionate quota of odd people acting strangely.
Jose Latour
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