We improve our knowledge of the 'how' of things but for the 'why' we need a different approach.
Even Buddha could only point the way.

The Wonderful World of Color.
Disney not included.

I make no claim of originality, but I think understanding the world more (perhaps) than our remote ancestors did in no way reduces the awe and wonder.

Our ancestors saw the Milky Way and made up stories about goddesses spilling milk. But now, try looking towards Sagittarius on a clear, moonless night and remember that each of those minute glowing dots you see is a sun perhaps greater than our own, and the haze of light is composed of such dots too shrunken by distance to see - and the light you see from that direction started on its way before the invention of agriculture, before the domestication of animals, maybe even before we learned to make fire. A thousand generations that light has been on its way, for you to see it tonight.

More wonder, not less. And then, if you can see both parts of the sky on the same night, look towards Andromeda...