Knowledge forbidden? Suspicious, reasonless. Who should their Lord envy them that? Can it be sin to know, can it be death? And do they only stand by ignorance, is that their happy state, the proof of their obedience and their faith?
O fair foundation laid whereon to build their ruin! Hence I will excite their minds with more desire to know, and to reject envious commands, invented with design to keep them low whom knowledge might exalt equal with gods. Aspiring to be such, then taste and die; what likelier can ensure?

Milton - Paradise Lost