Quotes

Specialization

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly.  Specialization is for insects.
– Robert A. Heinlein

The Greatest Fallacy of the Human Race

The greatest fallacy of the human race is the absurd notion that man is capable of making a Utopia or Shang-Gra-La or a Kingdom of Heaven here on Earth.  The liberal lost his faith in Heaven above, so he’s trying to make one on Earth.  He turned to Russia, China, Cuba, San Salvador, but they all have failed him.  He is the man without a cause.  An infallible society cannot be made by fallible men under ideal conditions.  It is non sequitur.  Poems are made by men like me, but only God can make a tree.  And only God can make a good society.  The condition of man is so critical, that God has no program to renovate the old nature.  His program is to give to man a new nature, you must be born again.  At the same time, he does not remove the old nature.  The old nature should keep man humble; the presence of the old nature is there to remind man continually of right and wrong.

– Dr. J. Vernon McGee