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The speculative part of my work is that these particular cognitive tasks - ways of thinking analytically - are tied to nature's laws.


Edward Tufte

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EDWARD GIBBON Animals are stylized characters in a kind of old saga -- stylized because even the most acute of the...
EDWARD HOAGLAND Animals used to provide a lowlife way to kill and get away with it, as they do still, but, more intr...
EDWARD HOAGLAND There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.
EDWARD DAHLBERG The worst of all diseases is a nervous ability.
EDWARD DYSON