"Engineers built the Titanic; amateurs built the ark"

Willowbirch, that is a very good point!

"God Himself could not sink this ship!"

A minor officer speaking to a passenger in 1912, onboard the Titanic.

It is, unfortunately, one of the most arrogant and foolish utterings by anyone in the past century.  I think of it when someone speaks of how enlightened and superior man has become over the years.