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

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.

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.

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

Change the instruments and you will change the entire social theory that goes with them

Science 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.

We would be better off thinking of nature as a tiger than as a docile and compliant automaton that can never threaten our survival.