Martijn van Teffelen

“Whereas other tribes believe in gods or complicated mythologies, the members of [a scientific] tribe insist that their activity is in no way to be associated with beliefs, a culture, or a mythology. Instead, they claim to be concerned only with “hard facts.”…[However], a laboratory is constantly performing operations on statements; adding modalities, citing, enhancing, diminishing, borrowing, and proposing new operations.” Latour & Woolgar, Laboratory life: The construction of scientific facts, 1979.