Edward Tufte

My idea here is that, inasmuch as certain cognitive tasks and principles are tied to nature's laws, these tasks and principles are indifferent to language, culture, gender, or the particular mode of information that is provided.

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These are some quotes by American author Edward Tufte Educator, who was born on March 14, 1942.

Quotes by Edward Tufte

The commonality between science and art is in trying to see profoundly - to develop strategies of seeing and showing.

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There are many true statements about complex topics that are too long to fit on a PowerPoint slide.

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That is to say, nature's laws are causal; they reveal themselves by comparison and difference, and they operate at every multivariate space/time point.

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