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Ernest André Gellner
(9 Dec 1925 - 5 Nov 1995)
French-British anthropologist and philosopher who was a vigorous intellectual who published his thoughts in several books, making contributions in diverse fields. In anthropology he brought a breadth of historical and philosophical learning to add context.
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Science Quotes by Ernest André Gellner (1)
Industrial Society is not merely one containing 'industry,' large-scale productive units capable of supplying man's material needs in a way which can eliminate poverty: it is also a society in which knowledge plays a part wholly different from that which it played in earlier social forms, and which indeed possesses a quite different type of knowledge. Modern science is inconceivable outside an industrial society: but modern industrial society is equally inconceivable without modern science. Roughly, science is the mode of cognition of industrial society, and industry is the ecology of science.
— Ernest André Gellner
Thought and Change (1965), 179.
