Ronald Plasterk, moleculair bioloog, voormalig hoogleraar in de ontwikkelingsgenetica aan de Universiteit van Utrecht, minister van Onderwijs, Cultuur en Wetenschap.

The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.

~ Albert Einstein