A, possibly rather obscure, quote, but one that makes sense in pursuit of the real.

'The confinement of the scientific object is equal to the confinement of the mad and the dead. And just as all of society is irredemiably contaminated by this mirror of madness that it has held up to itself, science can't help but die contaminated by the death of this object in its inverse mirror. It is science that masters the objects, but it is the objects that invest it with depth, according to an unconscious reversion, which only gives a dead and circular response to a dead and circular interrogation.' Simulacra and Simulation, J. Baudrillard