Science makes life more exciting because science is about thinking upon curiosities ; questions ; ideas ; explainations ; evidence ...it challenges your mind to come up with a ....reasonable and therefore logical thought. Which can lead to a Discovery of which never was thought of before . It is the Discovery which is very exciting ; much like the Sea Captain finding a New land.
If it were all within immediate reach, we would have used up all the excitement and be bored again. It's like plot development in a thick novel.
The TRUTH is that we ; Humans ; think we know it all ; its embrassing . At the most we have 2000yrs. Of knowledge ; of course if the christians had not burned Alexandria ; therefore destroyed ancient knowledge ; which was their goal ; it worked ; we would so much further ahead.