Jul 16, 2022
The thoughts of a Hopi about events always include both space and time, for neither is found alone in his world view. Thus his language gets along adequately without tenses for its verbs, and permits him to think habitually in terms of space-time. Properly to understand Einstein's relativity a Westerner must abandon his spoken tongue and take to the language of calculus. But a Hopi, Whorf implies, has a sort of calculus built into him.
Stuart Chase, foreword to ‘Language, Thought, and Reality: Selected Writings of Benjamin Lee Whorf’, by Benjamin Lee Whorf, edited by John B. Carroll
