The experimenter who does not know what he is looking for will not understand what he finds. If the Earth is the size of a pea in New York, then the Sun is a beachball 50m away, Pluto is 2km away, and the next nearest star is in Tokyo. That may have been a small one for Neil, but it was a big one for me. Some of the more environmentally aware dinosaurs were worried about the consequences of an accident with the new Iridium enriched fusion reactor. There is no likelihood man can ever tap the power of the atom.
Life is but one of the many properties of the carbon atom.
Truth decays into beauty, while beauty soon becomes merely charm. Charm ends up as strangeness, and even that doesn't last, but up and down are forever. Unfortunately, it's a moment of inertia. We can defeat gravity. The problem is the paperwork involved.