Limited Subtraction Function

Famous quotes containing the words limited and/or function:

    “We must believe that He permits it [this war] for some wise purpose of his own, mysterious and unknown to us; and though with our limited understandings we may not be able to comprehend it, yet we cannot but believe, that he who made the world still governs it.”
    —Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

    “We are thus able to distinguish thinking as the function which is to a large extent linguistic.”
    —Benjamin Lee Whorf (1897–1934)