Peter told me at one point about watching science fiction movies when he was a kid; he said they all tended to end with the scientist character taking off his horn-rimmed glasses, facing the camera, and intoning: \"There are some things man is not meant to know.\"<\/p>\n
This appears to be a deeply rooted image; Rick Kleffel gave a very similar description at the beginning of a 2002 installment of his Agony Column<\/a>, for example. And related lines in the IMDB pop up in places as diverse as The Andy Griffith Show<\/a> (\"there are some things beyond the ken of mortal man that shouldn't be tampered with\") and the 1995 video game The Dig<\/a> (\"There are some things Man was not meant to understand\"). Not to mention an article about H. P. Lovecraft<\/a> that we ran in 2001.<\/p>\n But I'm not seeing any specific source for the line. Was it really a common one in old SF movies, or is there some particular canonical place that used it?<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Peter told me at one point about watching science fiction movies when he was a kid; he said they all…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}