And he's an incredibly fast learner, able to digest the myriad nuances of a case in a short time (he read all 1, 800 exhibits for the Microsoft case in the two weeks before the trial started).
In the broadest sense, the history of measuring the universe is an emotional as well as a scientific one: It has proceeded only as fast as the human brain can stomach and digest the truth of how infinitesimally small our place in the universe really is.