“The forms of a person's thoughts are controlled by inexorable laws of pattern of which he is unconscious. These patterns are the unperceived intricate systematizations of his own language.”

About Benjamin Lee Whorf

Linguist • American

Benjamin Lee Whorf was an influential American linguist and fire prevention engineer known for his groundbreaking work in linguistic relativity. He developed the principle, often called the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, which...