Any one of us can notice a phenomenon after it has once been pointed out, which not one in ten thousand could ever have discovered for himself.
William James
Where these words come from
- 95% sureThese words were traced back to where they first appeared. That source is listed below.
- Psychology: Briefer Course (1892), Attention, pp. 235–236; Complete public-domain sentence. Surrounding discussion of trained perception and examples of children noticing features read. James’s own prose, not preceding Helmholtz quotation. Historical rhetorical comparison, not a measured statistic.
- Psychology: Briefer Course (1892), Attention, pp. 235–236
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