المعرفة مثل الطعام, تحتاج أيضا إلى الاعتدال فى الطلب لا إلى الشهية النهمة, أى أن يحيط الإنسان بما يستطيع الذهن أن يستوعبه دون إفراط وإلا أصيب بالتخمة… - John Milton

Some natural tears they dropped, but wiped them soon; The world was all before them, where to choose their place of rest, and Providence their guide: They hand in hand with wand'ring steps and slow, through Eden took their solitary way.

From haunted spring and dale
Edged with poplar pale
The parting genius is with sighing sent.

One fatal Tree there stands of Knowledge call'd, Forbidden them to taste: Knowledge forbidd'n? Suspicious, reasonless. Why should thir Lord Envie them that? can it be sin to know, Can it be death? and do they onely stand By Ignorance, is that thir happie state, The proof of thir obedience and thir faith? O fair foundation laid whereon to build Thir ruine! Hence I will excite thir minds With more desire to know, and to reject Envious commands, invented with designe To keep them low whom knowledge might exalt Equal with Gods; aspiring to be such, They taste and die: what likelier can ensue?