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  Question about a physics quote on visual vs. analytical reasoning. "Robert Clark" <rgregoryclark@gmSPAMBLOACKail.com> - 2016-11-25 09:44 -0500
    Re: Question about a physics quote on visual vs. analytical reasoning. "hanson" <hanson@quick.net> - 2016-11-25 07:10 -0800
      Re: Question about a physics quote on visual vs. analytical reasoning. bursejan@gmail.com - 2016-11-25 07:13 -0800
    Re: Question about a physics quote on visual vs. analytical reasoning. bert <bert.hutchings@btinternet.com> - 2016-11-25 08:49 -0800
    Re: Question about a physics quote on visual vs. analytical reasoning. Wally W. <ww84wa@aim.com> - 2016-11-25 14:05 -0500
    Re: Question about a physics quote on visual vs. analytical reasoning. The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2016-11-25 11:34 -0800
      Re: Question about a physics quote on visual vs. analytical reasoning. The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2016-11-26 11:37 -0800

#353358 — Question about a physics quote on visual vs. analytical reasoning.

I'm writing an article about the benefits of reasoning visually, using 
imagery. I wanted to cite a quote by a well known physicist about how some 
physicists reason visually, i.e., in pictures and others reason 
analytically, i.e., via equations.

But I can't quite remember who said it or the exact quote. I have a vague 
recollection that Dirac was either the person who made the quote or it was 
said about him, but I'm not sure about that either.

  Anyone remember the quote?


  Bob Clark

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#353371

"Robert Clark" <rgregoryclark@gmSPAMBLOACKail.com> wrote:
 > I'm writing an article about the benefits of reasoning visually, using
> imagery. I wanted to cite a quote by a well known physicist about how some 
> physicists reason visually, i.e., in pictures and others reason 
> analytically, i.e., via equations.
>
> But I can't quite remember who said it or the exact quote. I have a vague 
> recollection that Dirac was either the person who made the quote or it was 
> said about him, but I'm not sure about that either.
>
>  Anyone remember the quote?
>
>
>  Bob Clark
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Finally, nanotechnology can now fulfill its potential to revolutionize 
> 21st-century technology, from the space elevator, to private, orbital 
> launchers, to 'flying cars'.
> This crowdfunding campaign is to prove it:
>
> Nanotech: from air to space.
> https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/nanotech-from-air-to-space/x/13319568/
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
hanson wrote:
"the benefits of reasoning using imagery" is weel documented
google/bing 3.3 million hits --[Lies Fraud Academia]-- as in
>
<http://www.onlinecolleges.net/2011/12/05/10-academic-frauds-fooled>
>
or as exampled in the book by  Michael Brooks in
>
<http://tinyurl.com/Michael-Brooks-Free-Radicals> :
>
wherein Brooks wrote:
>
"1/3 (33+%) of all scientists are on drugs and loaded
while on the job and that 2/3rds (66+%) of all scientists
volunteered & admitted that they cheat & commit
fraud in/for & during their investigations."
>
Great scientist-role models, like Francis Crick, Nobel
laureate for the DNA, admitted to have been high on
LSD when he conjured up (visualized) the Double Helix...
>
Same goes for other well known lodos & druggies such
as LSD-guru Timothy Leary and the classic one, the
Cocaine Freak Sigmund Freud... All were fucked up in
their heads, incl.  most of today's "Climate Scientists"
with their Anthropic Globally Warmed fanaticism, and
earlier Einstein visualizing his Gedanken experiments.

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#353372

The other half is high on cheese cake an 
represented by JG.

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#353386

On Friday, 25 November 2016 14:43:28 UTC, Robert Clark  wrote:
> I'm writing an article about the benefits of reasoning visually, using 
> imagery. I wanted to cite a quote by a well known physicist about how some 
> physicists reason visually, i.e., in pictures and others reason 
> analytically, i.e., via equations.
> 
> But I can't quite remember who said it or the exact quote.

It's reminiscent of a well-known anecdote about John von Neumann. 
He was asked, if two trains start at (some given distance) apart 
and approach each other at (some given speed), and an insect flies 
(at some given greater speed) back and forth between them until 
it is crushed in the head-on collision, how far does it fly?

The purpose was to distinguish between a fairly slow analytical 
solution, by summing the infinite series, and a quicker visual 
solution by ignoring the reversals and dividing the insect's 
speed by the time to the collision.  Although von Neumann was 
known to be analytical, he answered almost immediately; and 
when queried as to why he had taken the visual approach, he 
replied in surprise, "No, I did sum the infinite series!"
-- 

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#353399

On Fri, 25 Nov 2016 09:44:14 -0500, Robert Clark wrote:

>I'm writing an article about the benefits of reasoning visually, using 
>imagery. I wanted to cite a quote by a well known physicist about how some 
>physicists reason visually, i.e., in pictures and others reason 
>analytically, i.e., via equations.
>
>But I can't quite remember who said it or the exact quote. I have a vague 
>recollection that Dirac was either the person who made the quote or it was 
>said about him, but I'm not sure about that either.
>
>  Anyone remember the quote?
>
>
>  Bob Clark

Not necessarily limited to visual imagery, but a similar thought:

http://www.cleanlanguage.co.uk/Quotes.html
Robert Stetson Shaw, quoted in James Gleick, Chaos: Making a New
Science, Viking, New York, 1987. p. 262:

" 'You don't see something until you have the right metaphor to let
you perceive it' [Robert Stetson] Shaw said, echoing Thomas S Kuhn."

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#353408

Robert Clark wrote:
> 
> I'm writing an article about the benefits of reasoning visually, using
> imagery. I wanted to cite a quote by a well known physicist about how some
> physicists reason visually, i.e., in pictures and others reason
> analytically, i.e., via equations.
> 
> But I can't quite remember who said it or the exact quote. I have a vague
> recollection that Dirac was either the person who made the quote or it was
> said about him, but I'm not sure about that either.
> 
>   Anyone remember the quote?
> 
>   Bob Clark


Stephen Hawking.


He cannot do anything else but reasoning visually...

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#353543

The Starmaker wrote:
> 
> Robert Clark wrote:
> >
> > I'm writing an article about the benefits of reasoning visually, using
> > imagery. I wanted to cite a quote by a well known physicist about how some
> > physicists reason visually, i.e., in pictures and others reason
> > analytically, i.e., via equations.
> >
> > But I can't quite remember who said it or the exact quote. I have a vague
> > recollection that Dirac was either the person who made the quote or it was
> > said about him, but I'm not sure about that either.
> >
> >   Anyone remember the quote?
> >
> >   Bob Clark
> 
> Stephen Hawking.
> 
> He cannot do anything else but reasoning visually...


i mean, before there was math or physics...it was all...visual.

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