If one looks at the works of Newton to Einstein, they were never scientists in the way modernity understands the term.
Bruno LatourThe 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 LatourWe would be better off thinking of nature as a tiger than as a docile and compliant automaton that can never threaten our survival.
Bruno LatourScience does not enter a chaotic society to put order into it anymore, to simplify its composition, and to put an end to controversies. It does enter it, but to add new uncertain ingredients... to all the other ingredients that make up the collective experiments. When scientists add their findings to the mix, they do not put an end to politics; they add new ingredients to the collective process.
Bruno Latour