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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...