Oh, I'm not advocating we give up on science.
It's just that its a young man's game. I decided a long time ago that my interest in my own field would be limited to objects of galactic size or smaller, and preferably to my own galaxy.
Beyond that and I just lose control of it all. Besides, If I keep it in the Milky Way, I can stick to Newtonian mechanics, which I understand well enough. I took all the undergraduate coursework offered in modern physics (relativity and the quantum) and I could work the problems in the book, but I could never get a grip on what was actually going on.