Him: We can't go back. We don't understand everything yet.
Her: "Everything" is a little ambitious. We barely understand anything.
Him: Yeah. But that's what the first part of understanding everything looks like.
Randall Munroe - Time
Followed by:
Him: We walked along the sea for days and we didn't learn anything. Up here we're learning lots.
Her: We haven't learned why the sea rose.
Him: But maybe we were never going to.
Him: There's food and water here. I don't want to go all the way back down, walk along the sea for a few more days, then have to turn around.
Him: Maybe the sea is too big to understand. We can't answer every question.
Her: No, But I think we can answer any question.
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