A human being in perfection ought always to preserve a calm and peaceful mind, and never to allow passion or transitory desire to disturb his tranquillity. I do not think that the pursuit of knowledge is an exception to this rule. If the study to which you apply yourself has a tendency to weaken your affections, and to destroy your taste for those simple pleasures which no alloy can possibly mix, then that study is certainly unlawful, that is to say, not befitting the human mind.
— Mary Shelley
Modern
Frankenstein
