In viewing our universe by way of models, we can build a hypothesis as a picture, visual data organizing itself more easily than word-based modeling (either as sound or text), and visualization lends itself to extremely large models.

FORBES: Your Brain Was Made For Visual Modeling

Better spatial visualization is a must for dozens of professions: surgeons training for arthroscopic procedures, drug researchers modeling how complex proteins fold in upon themselves, petroleum geologists mapping miles-deep oilfields.

FORBES: Adventures in the Third Dimension