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.

The point of the essay is to change things.

The leading edge in evidence presentation is in science; the leading edge in beauty is in high art.

The world is generally multivariate

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

I hope that I am generous and tolerant, but certainly on the intellectual side I think that there are discoverable truths, and some things that are closer approximations to the truth than others.

An open mind but not an empty head.