"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"

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Source : Bruno Latour (2005). “Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory”, p.245, Oxford University Press

Bruno Latour

#Ocean Quotes #Lakes Quotes #Islands Quotes

“I think I have pretty good taste in the projects I choose to take on. It's a blessing and a curse - I certainly could have worked a lot more if I wasn't as selective, but I just can't bring myself to spend two years of my life slaving away on some project I'm not really enthused about.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Americans are not saving enough for retirement.”
“Nosegays! leave them for the waking, Throw them earthward where they grew Dim are such, beside the breaking Amaranths he looks unto. Folded eyes see brighter colors than the open ever do.”
“Hunger is not debatable.”

Source : Harry Hopkins (1977). “Biography by Henry Adams”
“We shall find the abstract equivalent for all forms & elements in the universe, then we shall combine them in sculptural constructions according to the mood of our inspiration.”
“I don't know if music can change the world overnight but I know that music can help someone make it through a difficult night.”

Source : "'The troops thought: this guy's got balls'". Interview with Dorian Lynskey, www.theguardian.com. July 26, 2006.
“I am essentially an entertainer and a storyteller.”
“Learn to get in touch with the innermost essence of your being. This true essence is beyond the ego. It is fearless; it is free; it is immune to criticism; it does not fear any challenge. It is beneath no one, superior to no one, and full of magic, mystery, and enchantment.”

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