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

The point of the essay is to change things.
Edward Tufte

The idea of trying to create things that last - forever knowledge - has guided my work for a long time now.
Edward Tufte

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.
Edward Tufte

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.
Edward Tufte

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.
Edward Tufte

Public discussions are part of what it takes to make changes in the trillions of graphics published each year.
Edward Tufte

The minimum we should hope for with any display technology is that it should do no harm.
Edward Tufte