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.

Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about.

Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it.

Too long has the public mind considered religion to be synonymous with priestcraft.

My analysis was directed toward purely physical conditions, such as defective wiring, presence of lack of air spaces between metal flues and woodwork, etc., and the results were presented in these terms.

Most metaphysical words in Hopi are verbs, not nouns as in European languages.

The very natural tendency to use terms derived from traditional grammar like verb, noun, adjective, passive voice, in describing languages outside of Indo-European is fraught with grave possibilities of misunderstanding.