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Edward Tufte

"Beautiful Evidence is about the theory and practice of analytical design."

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"Beautiful Evidence is about the theory and practice of analytical design."

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"A curious consequence is that I have become a minor celebrity."
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"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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Edward Tufte
"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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Edward Tufte
"My father worked for governments all his life as an engineer and public works director."
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Edward Tufte
"A practical part of my teaching is to provide demonstrative, hands-on experiences."
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Edward Tufte
"The speculative part of my work is that these particular cognitive tasks - ways of thinking analytically - are tied to nature's laws."
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"What gets left out is the narrative between the bullets, which would tell us who's going to do what and how we're going to achieve the generic goals on the list."
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"The idea of trying to create things that last - forever knowledge - has guided my work for a long time now."
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Edward Tufte
"The leading edge in evidence presentation is in science; the leading edge in beauty is in high art."
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Edward Tufte
"The point of the essay is to change things."

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