The limits of knowledge

We see and sense so little yet we proclaim just how intelligent and all knowing we are.
E.O. Wilson's  eloquent commentary explains why this is not so.

We humans tend to think of ourselves as top dog of the Earth-based species, and why not? We've managed to sophisticate communication through language. We've harnessed tools to a degree that we've constructed a civilization built upon gadgetry. We've got to the moon and back while bats, ants, and birds are confined to the limits of their ability and intelligence. Still, Wilson says we should keep in mind that there is so much more to this world and nature as a whole that we don't understand because we're only privy to "a microscopic section" of stimuli. We see reds, blues, and yellows but can't pick up infrared or ultraviolet. We can't travel or communicate via echolocation. We can pick up magnetic fields using instruments but we can't sense them like innately to help with our navigation like birds do. We are limited by the breadth of our most basic senses, primarily sight and sound.

Read the article, it's good for the soul. :)