I agree with both of you. It's not impossible to be both in awe of our insignificance, and the capabilities of something so puny in the scheme of things.
Thank you - that's actually more or less what I mean, though I phrased it poorly. I'm not so much depressed at our insignificance as quite in awe to be able to KIND OF understand something so awesome (and so awesomely small). Or at least have a meta-understanding of parts of it. =)