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

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

Reality is what resists.

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

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

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.

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.