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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.