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Top 25 Bruno Latour Quotes (2025 Update)

Bruno Latour Quote: “Technology is society made durable.”

1. “Technology is society made durable.”

— Bruno Latour

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Bruno Latour Quote: “Change the instruments and you will change the entire social theory that goes with them.”

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

— Bruno Latour

Bruno Latour Quote: “Reality is what resists.”

3. “Reality is what resists.”

— Bruno Latour

Bruno Latour Quote: “We would be better off thinking of nature as a tiger than as a docile and compliant automaton that can never threaten our survival.”

4. “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

Bruno Latour Quote: “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.”

5. “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

Bruno Latour Quote: “The difficulty lies in the very expression “relation to the world,” which presupposes two sorts of domains, that of nature and that of culture, domains that are at once distinct and impossible to separate completely.”

6. “The difficulty lies in the very expression “relation to the world,” which presupposes two sorts of domains, that of nature and that of culture, domains that are at once distinct and impossible to separate completely.”

— Bruno Latour

Bruno Latour Quote: “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.”

7. “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

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

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

— Bruno Latour

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

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

— Bruno Latour

Bruno Latour Quote: “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.”

10. “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

Bruno Latour Quote: “The composition of a common world would be the definition of politics.”

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

— Bruno Latour

Bruno Latour Quote: “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.”

12. “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

Bruno Latour Quote: “My kingdom for a more embodied body.”

13. “My kingdom for a more embodied body.”

— Bruno Latour

Bruno Latour Quote: “India is a reservoir of alternative interpretations of what the global is, and these ways of viewing the world need to be exposed.”

14. “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

Bruno Latour Quote: “The hypothesis of this essay is that the word ‘modern’ designates two sets of entirely different practices which must remain distinct if they are to remain effective, but have recently begun to be confused. The first set of practices, by ‘translation’, creates mixtures between entirely new types of beings, hybrids of nature and culture. The second, by ‘purification’, creates two entirely distinct ontological zones: that of human beings on the one hand; that of nonhumans on the other.”

15. “The hypothesis of this essay is that the word ‘modern’ designates two sets of entirely different practices which must remain distinct if they are to remain effective, but have recently begun to be confused. The first set of practices, by ‘translation’, creates mixtures between entirely new types of beings, hybrids of nature and culture. The second, by ‘purification’, creates two entirely distinct ontological zones: that of human beings on the one hand; that of nonhumans on the other.”

— Bruno Latour

Bruno Latour Quote: “To the migrants from outside who have to cross borders and leave their countries behind at the price of immense tragedies, we must from now on add the migrants from inside who, while remaining in place, are experiencing the drama of seeing themselves left behind by their own countries.”

16. “To the migrants from outside who have to cross borders and leave their countries behind at the price of immense tragedies, we must from now on add the migrants from inside who, while remaining in place, are experiencing the drama of seeing themselves left behind by their own countries.”

— Bruno Latour

Bruno Latour Quote: “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.”

17. “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

Bruno Latour Quote: “Facts remain robust only when they are supported by a common culture, by institutions that can be trusted, by a more or less decent public life, by more or less reliable media.”

18. “Facts remain robust only when they are supported by a common culture, by institutions that can be trusted, by a more or less decent public life, by more or less reliable media.”

— Bruno Latour

Bruno Latour Quote: “Alas, the historical name is ‘actor-network-theory’, a name that is so awkward, so confusing, so meaningless that it deserves to be kept.”

19. “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

Bruno Latour Quote: “But then is no one at home any longer?” No, as a matter of fact. Neither state sovereignty nor inviolable borders can take the place of politics any longer.”

20. “But then is no one at home any longer?” No, as a matter of fact. Neither state sovereignty nor inviolable borders can take the place of politics any longer.”

— Bruno Latour

Bruno Latour Quote: “No one knows any longer whether the reintroduction of the bear in Pyrenees, kolkhozes, aerosols, the Green Revolution, the anti-smallpox vaccine, Star Wars, the Muslim religion, partridge hunting, the French Revolution, service industries, labour unions, cold fusion, Bolshevism, relativity, Slovak nationalism, commercial sailboats, and so on, are outmoded, up to date, futuristic, atemporal, nonexistent, or permanent.”

21. “No one knows any longer whether the reintroduction of the bear in Pyrenees, kolkhozes, aerosols, the Green Revolution, the anti-smallpox vaccine, Star Wars, the Muslim religion, partridge hunting, the French Revolution, service industries, labour unions, cold fusion, Bolshevism, relativity, Slovak nationalism, commercial sailboats, and so on, are outmoded, up to date, futuristic, atemporal, nonexistent, or permanent.”

— Bruno Latour

Bruno Latour Quote: “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.”

22. “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

Bruno Latour Quote: “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.”

23. “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

Bruno Latour Quote: “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.”

24. “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

Bruno Latour Quote: “And yet, it is true that the third attractor doesn’t look very attractive. It requires too much care, too much attention, too much time, too much diplomacy. Even today it is the Global that shines, that liberates, that arouses enthusiasm, that makes it possible to remain so unaware, that emancipates, that gives the impression of eternal youth. Only it does not exist. It is the Local that reassures, that calms, that offers an identity. But it does not exist either.”

25. “And yet, it is true that the third attractor doesn’t look very attractive. It requires too much care, too much attention, too much time, too much diplomacy. Even today it is the Global that shines, that liberates, that arouses enthusiasm, that makes it possible to remain so unaware, that emancipates, that gives the impression of eternal youth. Only it does not exist. It is the Local that reassures, that calms, that offers an identity. But it does not exist either.”

— Bruno Latour

Bruno Latour Quote: “Politics is not about “freshly dead” people, but about the living ; not about ghoulish stories of the afterworld, but about gory stories of this world.”

26. “Politics is not about “freshly dead” people, but about the living ; not about ghoulish stories of the afterworld, but about gory stories of this world.”

— Bruno Latour

Bruno Latour Quote: “The new universality consists in feeling that the ground is in the process of giving way.”

27. “The new universality consists in feeling that the ground is in the process of giving way.”

— Bruno Latour

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