I have to admit I love the ideas in science, even though the mathematics leaves me failing badly, the whole idea that things are related at the particle level, that there are laws and rules to chemical actions and physical objects no matter how large, is fascinating. Like many people I do not think it takes away from the beauty of the world and I am sorry only that I will not live long enough to know everything we find out or all the machines we will make to take us out into the solar system and beyond.
I cannot point to any particular idea that got me started but I think it fair to say scientific ideas have always attracted me more than religious ones. I find the incremental way science has tried to build up pictures of how things work t be very compelling, and even more so the advance of knowledge of living things into medicine and veterinary science. if i had my life over again I would study science more deeply.
There is something wonderful about how much a part of everything we actually are which makes it all the more depressing to see how people try vainly to think themselves apart from everything.