But is all that worth giving up the chance to do something really useful for humanity? After all, you could choose to be famous because you cured cancer or brought peace to the middle-east. The question just said fame, but not for what.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell