Intuition and Scale

There is no guarantee that our minds will intuitively understand phenomena at scales of time and space that are very different from our own experience — hundreds of millions of years, billions of light years, Ângströms … Our best science tells us that laws of reality work very differently from those at the scales we are used to thinking so disciplines like quantum mechanics, evolutionary biology, cosmology and even neuro science are deeply baffling.

~ Steven Pinker (born:1954-09-18 age:61) in an interview with Richard Dawkins  Richard Dawkins interviews Stephen Pinker .