...part of the vanity of all sciences, which, Cornelius Agrippa says, " Are evil as well as good, and bring us no other advantage to excel as deities, more than what the serpent promised of old, when he said, 'Ye shall be as Gods, knowing good and evil."" What Gods? There is but one Living and True God....

...Nettesheim, Cap. i, De incertitudine et vanitate omnium scientiarum, etc. : " But first I must admonish you that all sciences are as well evil as good, and that...more than what the Serpent promised of old, when he said : Ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil." See also Helmont's opinion of university studies...