Global betterment is a mental process, not one that requires huge sums of money or a high level of authority. Change has to be psychological.
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
I have not yet lost a feeling of wonder, and of delight, that this delicate motion should reside in all the things around us, revealing itself only to him who looks for it. I remember, in the winter of our first experiments, just seven years ago, looking on snow with new eyes. There the snow lay around my doorstep — great heaps of protons quietly precessing in the earth's magnetic field. To see the world for a moment as something rich and strange is the private reward of many a discovery.