Single vision produces worse illusions than double vision or many-headed monsters.

Scientific practice is above all a story-telling practice. ... Biology is inherently historical, and its form of discourse is inherently narrative. ... Biology as a way of knowing the world is kin to Romantic literature, with its discourse about organic form and function. Biology is the fiction appropriate to objects called organisms; biology fashions the facts "discovered" about organic beings.

The cyborg would not recognize the garden of Eden; it is not made of mud and cannot dream of returning to dust.

The boundary between science fiction and social reality is an optical illusion

From this point of view, science - the real game in town - is rhetoric, a series of efforts to persuade relevant social actors that one's manufactured knowledge is a route to a desired form of very objective power.

A cyborg is a cybernetic organism, a hybrid of machine and organism, a creature of social reality as well as a creature of fiction.

Though both are bound in the spiral dance, I would rather be a cyborg than a goddess.