"The minimum we should hope for with any display technology is that it should do no harm."
-Edward Tufte
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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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"The commonality between science and art is in trying to see profoundly - to develop strategies of seeing and showing."
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"I do believe that there are some universal cognitive tasks that are deep and profound - indeed, so deep and profound that it is worthwhile to understand them in order to design our displays in accord with those tasks."
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"Beautiful Evidence is about the theory and practice of analytical design."
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"If you like overheads, you'll love PowerPoint."
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"The leading edge in evidence presentation is in science the leading edge in beauty is in high art."
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"Belief and knowledge are considered to be two different things. But they are not."
-Stanley Fish
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"Here, class attendance is expected and students are required to take notes, which they are tested on. What is missing, it seems to me, is the use of knowledge, the practical training."
-Harrison Salisbury
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"Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity."
-Abraham Cowley
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"My father was a lawyer and to my best knowledge nobody in my family before had interest in science."
-George Andrew Olah
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"Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination which worked with great power upon the facts of his own experience."
-Carl Clinton Van Doren
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"What is research but a blind date with knowledge?"
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