Our vanity desires that what we do best should be considered what is hardest for us.
It is a lot better to come from an evolved monkey than from a fallen angel.
I would beg the wise and learned fathers (of the church) to consider with all diligence the difference which exists between matters of mere opinion and matters of demonstration. . . . [I]t is not in the power of professors of the demonstrative sciences to alter their opinions at will, so as to be now of one way of thinking and now of another. . . . [D]emonstrated conclusions about things in nature of the heavens, do not admit of being altered with the same ease as opinions to what is permissible or not, under a contract, mortgage, or bill of exchange.
I don't think you can be a designer if you don't care.
I can't change overnight into a serious literary author. You can't compare apples to oranges. William Faulkner was a great literary genius. I am not.
There is a convergence of crises that makes it challenging to keep the world's attention.