Richard Dawkins is best known from his controversial best selling books like "The God Delusion," and "The Selfish Gene." He is a reknowned ethologist, evolutionary biologist, and popular science writer. Dawkins is well known for his views on religion as he is an outspoken antireligionist, atheist, secular humanist, and sceptic.

In his talk, entitled "Queerer Than We Can Suppose: The Strangeness of Science", which he delivered at the TED Conferences in 2006, he suggests that the true nature of the universe eludes us, because the human mind evolved only to understand the "middle-sized" world we can observe.

He argues that science, as opposed to technology, does violence to common sense: Every time you drink a glass of water the odds are that you will imbibe at least one molecule that passed through the bladder of Oliver Cromwell. The number of molecules per glass full is hugely greater than the number of glass fulls, or bladders fulls, in the world.

Dawkins further outlines that there are most probably more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of or can be dreamed of in any philosophy, and wonder whether there are things about the universe that will be forever beyond our grasp, but not beyond the grasp of some superior intelligence.

So far, science has thaught us, against all intuition, that apparently solid things like cristals and rocks are really almost entirely composed of empty space.

Please, have a look at Dawkin's talk yourself to learn what science can mean to our daily lives: