Science, by its very nature, includes mystery and wonder. I know this—I have experienced it myself. Many times as a graduate student, I holed myself up in a small, dark room with a very large microscope for hours as I experimented on immune cells taken from lungs. My experiments centered on the movement of those cells, and on testing whether the proteins I studied stimulated those cells to move. It was amazing and humbling to understand that the things I did on the large scale made those cells move on the microscopic one. There, in that small, dark room, looking at those very tiny cells, I could not help but be overwhelmed by my connection to a vast and unfathomable universe. I could not help but be filled with a sense of mystery, wonder and awe.
-Rev. Dr. Michael Tino (CLF)
Think about a scientific discovery that is awesome to you.
The pictures that are coming back to earth from space, sent by the new telescope are awesome