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Benjamin Whorf Quotes

But in due course it became evident that not only a physical situation qua physics, but the meaning of that situation to people, was sometimes a factor, through the behavior of people, in the start of a fire.
Benjamin Whorf

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Scientist Quotes
Category:
American Scientist Quotes
Date of Birth:
April 24, 1897
Date of Death:
July 26, 1941
Nationality:
American
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