"The great field for new discoveries," said a scientific friend to me the
other day, "is always the unclassified residuum." By that curious term, he
meant that around the accredited and orderly facts of every science, there
ever floats a sort of dust-cloud of exceptional observations, of
occurrences minute and irregular and seldom met with, which it always
proves more easy to ignore than to attend to. -- William James
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