History Main / TheseAreThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow

* BrownNote -- Sounds Man Was Not Meant To Hear, for example.

* BrownNote -- Things Man Was Not Made To See/Hear/Experience (Without Voiding His Bowels (Or Worse)).

* In BattlestarGalactica, the ''Final Five'' are treated like things Cylons are not meant to know. D'Anna Biers grows an obsession with them, [[DeathIsCheap repeatedly committing suicide]] to glimpse into into the place between life and death in a quest to find out about them. When she finally does get a glimpse, it results with her suffering from PsychicNosebleed, followed by death.

*** A related quote: [[http://web.uvic.ca/~chem458/index.php "Ludwig Boltzmann who spent much of his life studying statistical mechanics, died in 1906, by his own hand. Paul Ehrenfest, carrying on the work, died similarly in 1933. Now it is our turn to study statistical mechanics.]] [[Perhaps it will be wise to approach the subject cautiously."]]

*** A related quote: [[http://web.uvic.ca/~chem458/index.php "Ludwig Boltzmann who spent much of his life studying statistical mechanics, died in 1906, by his own hand. Paul Ehrenfest, carrying on the work, died similarly in 1933. Now it is our turn to study statistical mechanics.]] [[{{Understatement}} Perhaps it will be wise to approach the subject cautiously."]]

*** A related quote: [[http://web.uvic.ca/~chem458/index.php "Ludwig Boltzmann who spent much of his life studying statistical mechanics, died in 1906, by his own hand. Paul Ehrenfest, carrying on the work, died similarly in 1933. Now it is our turn to study statistical mechanics. Perhaps it will be wise to approach the subject cautiously."]]

->Learn from me, if not by my precepts, at least by my example, how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge, and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspires to become greater than his nature will allow.\\
-- '''[[{{Frankenstein}} Victor Frankenstein]]'''

** Also by Asimov, "[[http://lucis.net/stuff/clarke/9billion_clarke.html The Nine Billion Names of God]]". A group of monks use a computer to write down every name of God, reducing the time it would take to do so from 15,000 years to 1,000 ''days''. When every name is finally recorded, [[TheStarsAreGoingOut humanity's purpose is fulfilled, and God unmakes the universe]].

* This trope basically prompted Isaac Asimov to start his writing career. Up until his stories robots had always been portrayed as the products of oblivious, if not demented, people who's creations ended up killing their creator and going on a rampage. In the forward to at least one of his anthologies he goes on about how these stories always irritated him and how he wanted to see their fears of new technology to the utility such things could bring, with the sensible safe guards.

* An episode of ''JusticeLeagueUnlimited'' that featured time travel posited that no one must know how the universe was created (I don't remember why). If you want to know, [[spoiler: it's represented as a ball of light emanating from an enormous hand within a dark void, and since [[AllMythsAreTrue all those other gods exist]]...]]

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* ''{{Rayman}} 3'' features a ''weaponized'' thing Man (or rather, a cute little fairy-like species) was not meant to know. There is a secret so horrible that it corrupts anyone who hears it. A single member of the species somehow learned it, and he captures others and whispers it to them, then lets them whisper it to others, like an intellectual ZombieApocalypse. It'd be horrific if the entire game weren't PlayedForLaughs.

** Sausage is made from certain parts of the animal that may squick a tiny niche of the population, but are perfectly safe, nutritious, and delicious. These ingredients may include the animal's face, tongue, legs, liver, heart, stomach, lungs, kidneys, and neck, all ground up and stuffed inside the animal's intestines.

* Theme of a short story (title lost) involving teleportation. A boy and his father have to teleport and are given a pill to go to sleep, since you mustn't be awake during the process. The boy is too curious to not find out what it's like and doesn't swallow the pill. It does not end well for him.
** This Troper is kinda sure it's Stephen King's, in the collection of sort stories The Mist.
*** Yep. It's Stephen King's The Jaunt. It's interplanetary travel, and it seems like eternity for the mind if you're conscious through it despite only being a few moments.

** [[MemeticMutation Actually, he was referring to the Chuck Norris Halloween costume he was wearing that day]].