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Their wordsThis perspective, called solipsism, is a bit extreme, but it reflects a hard truth about our existence: No one really knows what anyone else is thinking.
Their wordsMost of us only care about knowledge that benefits us in practical ways. Helps us live longer, get around and swap info faster, get richer, kill our enemies and so on.
Their wordsReality isn't just temporarily weird, weird until we figure it out. Reality is intrinsically, objectively weird. The more we study existence, the more improbable it seems.
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