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.

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

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.

The essential test of design is how well it assists the understanding of the content, not how stylish it is.

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

Here's the general theory: To clarify, add detail. Imagine that. To clarify, add detail. And clutter and overload are not an attribute of information, they are failures of design. If the information is in chaos, don't start throwing out information, instead fix the design.

If the statistics are boring, you've got the wrong numbers.