Sometimes knowledge makes existence stranger rather than simpler.

Understanding does not always tidy things up. Learn enough about matter, time, or the brain and the world becomes less like the sensible place you assumed and more like something you had never properly considered. Explanation can increase strangeness rather than reducing it, which is not a failure of the explanation but a feature of the thing being explained.

If you tend to avoid learning about something because it might spoil the mystery, try it and see. The usual outcome is that the mystery relocates and deepens rather than disappearing, and you are left with more to think about than you had before.