We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language.
Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about.
Too long has the public mind considered religion to be synonymous with priestcraft.
A change in language can transform our appreciation of the cosmos.
Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it.
But in due course it became evident that not only a physical situation qua physics, but the meaning of that situation to people, was sometimes a factor, through the behavior of people, in the start of a fire.