Man is no Aristotelian god contemplating all existence at one glance. He is the creature of an evolution who can just about span a
sufficient portion of reality to manage his survival, and snatch what on the scale of time
are but a few moments of insight and happiness. Yet this same creature has invented ways
of seeing what no naked eye could see, of hearing what no ear could hear, of weighing
immense masses and infinitesimal ones, of counting and separating more items than he can
individually remember. He is learning to see with his mind vast portions of the world that
he could never see, touch, smell, hear, or remember. Gradually he makes for himself a
trustworthy picture inside his head of the world beyond his reach.

-Walter Lippman