The Eyes Have It

Today marks the first anniversary of The Eyes Have It. I recently came across three interesting quotes on the web page for a course called “In The Mind’s Eye: Information in Visual Form” taught at York University by Walter Whiteley. It seemed appropriate to post them here today as they echo several recurring themes that have emerged in TEHI over the last 12 months.

“The greatest value of a picture is when it forces us to notice what we never expected to see. ” – John Tukey

“Diagrammatic reasoning is the only really fertile reasoning.” – C. S. Peirce (1839 – 1914)

“The soul never thinks without a mental image.” – Aristotle

(Sounds like a great course: “Scientists use graphs, diagrams, visual output from experiments and other visual images to image what is going on, organize information, to solve problems, to remember, and to persuade. This course explores the nature of visual information and reasoning, the construction of good representations, and how visual forms may mislead and changing how we ‘see’ visual representations.”)