Mol, 42, quoting Latour: "Scientific activity is not 'about nature,' it is a fierce fight to construct nature. The laboratory is the workplace and the set of productive forces which makes construction possible. Every time a statement stabilizes, it is reintroduced into the laboratory (in the guise of a machine, inscription device, skill, routine, prejudice, deduction, program, and so on) [...] Reality is secreted"
Mol: "The image is beautiful: just as glands secrete hormones, laboratories secrete reality"