At the same time, new concepts and abstractions flow into the picture, taking up the task of describing the universe without reference to such time or space – abstractions for which our language lacks adequate terms.
Benjamin Lee Whorf Quotes
Too long has the public mind considered religion to be synonymous with priestcraft.
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| Birth: | 24th April, 1897 |
| Death: | 26th July, 1941 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Scientist |
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Whorf is widely known as an advocate for the idea that because of linguistic differences in grammar and usage, speakers of different languages conceptualize and experience the world differently. This principle has frequently been called the "Sapir–Whorf hypothesis", after him and his mentor Edward Sapir, but Whorf called it the principle of linguistic relativity, because he saw the idea as having implications similar to Einstein's principle of physical relativity.
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