The flesh-eating bacterium that's infected your pancreas is a truly remarkable specimen, but you're too much like "oh GOD, my INSIDES!" to appreciate it.
My favorite example is Gregor Mendel. He wasn't a scientist. He was a monk with no degrees of any kind. But he did science—legendary science—which means he actually was a scientist.
That is the largest truck that someone who's spent their whole life in Japan can conceptualize. Japan is a land of tiny trucks.