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.

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.

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

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.

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

We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language.