Right In Front Of Our Eyes

How we rarely understand what phenomena are really telling us

Image credit: BBC

There’s an adage that says, “ordinary people understand nothing, clever people can solve difficult known problems, but it takes a genius to see what’s right in front of everyone’s eyes.”

Or, as per the BBC TV Series Sherlock when the eponymous hero tells his amanuensis Dr. Watson: “As ever, you see but you do not observe.”