Yet I would go further, and compare us to a creature such as a dolphin. Wise and intelligent, able to communicate in a complex manner with its fellows, and at a pinacle of existence. Such a creature even has knowledge of creatures beyond its realm, with which it interacts at a basic level. Yet it has no first hand knowledge of the world beyond its watery realm, no knowledge of ice covered mountains, of tropical jungles, of deserts and of man's so called civilisation: and beyond even these, no knowledge of the heavens beyond a few rudimentary items such as the sun and moon. It has no knowledge of elements, of atomic particles, of quanta ......
There, in a nutshell, is the status of man to the universe.
P. Finne.