Edward Tufte

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

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

The speculative part of my work is that these particular cognitive tasks - ways of thinking analytically - are tied to nature's laws.

But with each passing year and each new study, the evidence for the genetic contribution to individual and group differences becomes more firmly established than ever.

I don't know why, but the older I get the more interested I get in my parents' marriage. And it's interesting to be married yourself, too, because there is an inevitable comparison.

Causal analysis provides absolutely no value judgment, and a value judgment is absolutely not a causal explanation.