Frankenstein's quest for knowledge

Do you think Frankenstein went too far in his quest for knowledge? or, more interestingly, is it possible to learn too much? What should Frankenstein have have done differently? In a larger context, how should we protect and safeguard the advancement of knowledge?
I personally feel that Frankenstein went to far in his quest for knowledge, its fine that he wants to learn the secret of life but its terrible that he went to the extent of creating life without planing for what he would do with it after he created it. He essentially created a life and then destroyed it by making it the most dejected being on the earth. I don't think its possible to learn too much from a wide perspective. there are probably more narrow fields of knowledge where you can learn too much but that is more like getting up into people's buisness but as for regular fields of knowledge such as math, science, etc. there is not learning too much. As for what Frankenstein could have done differently he could have just been satisfied with the fact that he knew the secret of life, rather than going so far as to create a miserable life. As for safeguarding knowledge, it's not so much that we need to defend against knowledge more so we need to defend how it is applied. This is based on morals thus it is really difficult to control because everyone has different morals.