Quote by Edward Tufte
The idea of trying to create things that last - forever knowledge

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

Other quotes by Edward Tufte

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

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Art
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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. – Edward Tufte

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design
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I dont keep my secrets or my knowledge to myself. – Natalia Makarova

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If you know you are on the right track, if you have this inner knowledge, then nobody can turn you off… no matter what they say. – Barbara McClintock

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Knowledge

Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? – T. S. Eliot

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The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching. – Aristotle

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By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth. – George Carlin

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Every wise man lives in an observatory. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation of the past, thus reinforcing political and social values that are no longer with us. – Robert Smithson

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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober not to make us sorry but wise. – H. G. Wells

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