Derrick Van

“When people believe a tale that conflicts with self-checkable evidence it tells me that people undervalue the role of evidence on formulating an internal belief system. Why this is so is not clear, but it enables many people to hold fast to ideas and notions based purely on supposition.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson, Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries

“Science is a philosophy of discovery. Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson, Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries

“People should be left to believe what they like, so long as they harm no one else. Apart from normal expectations of politeness, it is not however clear why people should require their personal beliefs to be treated with special sensitivity by others, to the point that if others fail to tip-toe respectfully around them they will start throwing bombs.”
― A. C. Grayling

“A continent which imports the world's peoples will also import the world's problems.”
― Douglas Murray, The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam