The Adam and Eve myth, with its dangerous Tree of Knowledge that mustn’t be touched, is paralleled in many cultures which also feel that ultimate knowledge is reserved for the gods. Most religions have a thread of anti-intellectualism, some trace of preference of faith or belief or piety rather than for knowledge, or the feeling that some forms of knowledge were too dangerous to meddle with and had best be forbidden or reserved to a few special people.
— Maslow in Towards a psychology of being
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