7 ideas
6602 | Philosophy is like a statue which is worshipped but never advances [Bacon] |
16724 | The senses deceive, but also show their own errors [Bacon] |
1556 | By nature people are close to one another, but culture drives them apart [Hippias] |
3916 | Hopi consistently prefers verbs and events to nouns and things [Whorf] |
6603 | Nature is revealed when we put it under pressure rather than observe it [Bacon] |
3917 | Scientific thought is essentially a specialised part of Indo-European languages [Whorf] |
3915 | The Hopi have no concept of time as something flowing from past to future [Whorf] |