Full Idea
What we call "scientific thought" is a specialisation of the western Indo-European type of language.
Clarification
Meaning it depends on a particular language
Gist of Idea
Scientific thought is essentially a specialised part of Indo-European languages
Source
Benjamin Lee Whorf (An American Indian model of the Universe [1936], p.246)
Book Reference
'A Companion to Epistemology', ed/tr. Dancy,J. /Sosa,E. [Blackwell 1993], p.246
A Reaction
This is the beginnings of an absurd extreme relativist view of science, based on a confusion about meaning and thought.