Proportion

Listening to the interviews on meaningoflifetv reminded me of something I read many years ago. The speaker was an American physicist whose name I cannot remember. In any case, in the spirit of Douglas Adams ("if life is going to exist in a universe of this size, then the one thing [a sentient being] cannot afford to have is a sense of proportion"), attain humility meditating upon

The universe may not only be stranger than we understand, it may well be stranger than we can understand.