And a Taoist says: "Life is the way it is even if you don't understand it".
The desire to know, to understand, seems to be largely a Western phenomenon. I'm not aware of any Eastern philosophical or cultural tradition that places any great emphasis on reason. Yet in the West, the more impenetrable a question seems to be, the more we want to dig in.
The Eastern traditions lack any notion of a personal God Who man made in His image (or reflection); thus man possesses reason and free will as a result. When you think about it, you might say that the idea of the imago Dei is the foundation of all the sciences: God created a universe that is "reasonable," or capable of being understood; and he created man with the reason to understand it....
In any case, science did not arise in the East; only in the West.