New types of logic may help us to understand why certain phenomena, e.g. electrons and the velocity of light, appear to behave illogically and contrary to common sense upon which our civilisation is built. Intellectuals have long admitted that our mechanistic way of thinking breaks down before the great frontier problems of science. To surmount these barriers, we need a linguistic foundation that will permit a new way of thinking.
— Benjamin Whorf, Language, Thought, and Reality