
"The problem with philosophers is that because their jobs are so hard they drink a lot of coffee and thus use in their arguments an inordinate quantity of pots, mugs, and jugs — to which, sometimes, they might add the occasional rock. But, as
Ludwik Fleck remarked long ago, their objects are never complicated enough; more precisely, they are never simultaneously
made through a complex history and new, real, and
interesting participants in the universe."
— Bruno Latour, "Why Has Critique Run Out Of Steam?: From Matters of Fact to Matters of Concern" in
Critical Inquiry 30 (Winter 2004), 233-234