Call me weird, but the more I learn, the more fascinating everything becomes. The more answers I get, the more questions they create. Where the hell did Mitochondria come from? What's hidden in pi? Why haven't we heard from extraterrestrial lifeforms yet? Why was there a big bang (if there was one?) What's going to happen when we start making nanites (ones that do complex stuff, not simple switches, I mean)? Cloning? Where are these microbes we're getting in space rocks coming from? What will happen if we (as a species) wipe ourselves out? What is going to be the single most important event for our species in the next one hundred years? Facts aren't the antithesis of imagination, they're the building blocks we use to create our mental worlds. If someone gets discouraged from finding a fantasy is false, then I could understand facts killing imagination in that person. But the more I learn, the more I wonder.