فهرست دانشمندان خداناباور
فهرست دانشمندان خداناباور به معرفی دانشمندان و پژوهشگران برجسته در حوزه علم و تکنولوژی می‌پردازد که به وجود خدا اعتقاد ندارند و این موضوع را به‌صورت علنی اعلام کرده‌اند. خداناباوری به‌معنای عدم باور به وجود خدا است.[1][2] تخمین زده می‌شود که بین سالهای ۱۹۰۰ تا ۲۰۰۰ و از میان ۶۵۴ برنده جایزه نوبل، در مجموع، حدود ۱۰٫۵٪ از برندگان خداناباور، ندانم‌گرا یا آزاداندیش بوده‌اند.[3] مطابق یک بررسی در سال ۱۹۱۴، از میان ۱۰۰۰ دانشمند عضو آکادمی ملی علوم آمریکا که به‌طور تصادفی انتخاب شده بودند، ۵۸٪ خداناباور بوده یا در وجود خدا شک داشته‌اند و زمانی که این بررسی محدود به ۴۰۰ دانشمند برجسته شد، این آمار به حدود ۷۰٪ افزایش یافت.[4] تکرار همین بررسی در ۲۰ سال بعد، نشان داد که دو عدد به‌دست آمده رشد داشته و به‌ترتیب به ۶۷٪ و ۸۵٪ رسیده‌اند.[4] انجام‌دهندگان این تحقیق علت درصد بالاتر در میان دانشمندان برجسته‌تر را نتیجه دانش بالاتر، درک و تجربه‌گرایی دانستند.[4] همین شیوه انتخاب و پرسش در سال ۱۹۹۶ توسط گروه دیگری به انجام رسید و اعداد تقریباً مشابهی به‌دست آمد به‌طوری که از میان ۱۰۰۰ دانشمند عضو آکادمی ملی علوم آمریکا که به‌طور تصادفی انتخاب شده بودند، ۶۰٫۷٪ از این دانشمندان خداناباور بوده یا در وجود خدا شک داشته‌اند.[4] این بررسی نشان داد که دانشمندان زیست‌شناسی عضو آکادمی ملی علوم ۶۵٫۲٪ خداناباور و ۶۹٪ نامعتقد به جاودانگی[lower-alpha 1] (پس از مرگ) هستند. مطابق همین این آمار، میزان خداناباوری برای فیزیک‌دانهای عضو آکادمی ملی علوم برابر ۷۹٪ و میزان ناباوری به جاودانگی برابر با ۷۶٫۳٪ بوده‌است. درصد بالایی از زیست‌شناسان و فیزیک‌دانان باقی مانده در آمار اعلام شده نیز ندانم‌گرا بوده‌اند و تنها درصد کمی به وجود خدا باور داشته‌اند.[4]
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حدود ۱۰٫۵٪ از دانشمندانی که بین سالهای ۱۹۰۰ تا ۲۰۰۰ موفق به کسب جایزه نوبل شده‌اند، خداناباور، آگنوستیک یا آزاداندیش بوده‌اند.
مطابق نظرسنجی مؤسسه پیو که در سال ۲۰۰۹ روی ۲۵۰۰ نفر از دانشمندان عضو انجمن پیشبرد علوم آمریکا انجام شد، ۵۱٪ به نوعی الوهیت یا قدرت بالاتر[lower-alpha 2]، ۳۳٪ به خدا[lower-alpha 3] و ۱۸٪ به یک روح جهانی یا قدرت بالاتر،[lower-alpha 4] اعتقاد داشتند، در حالی‌که ۴۱٪ به وجود خدا یا قدرت بالاتر[lower-alpha 5] اعتقاد نداشتند.[5]
از میان برندگان جایزه نوبل، تنها چهار نفر موفق به کسب دو جایزه نوبل شده‌اند که عبارت‌اند از ماری کوری (فیزیک ۱۹۰۳ و شیمی ۱۹۱۱)، لینوس پاولینگ (شیمی ۱۹۵۴ و صلح ۱۹۶۲)، جان باردین (فیزیک ۱۹۵۶ و ۱۹۷۲) و فردریک سنگر (شیمی ۱۹۵۸ و ۱۹۸۰) که هیچ‌کدام یک از آنها خداباور نبودند. لینوس پاولینگ خداناباور و جان باردین، ماری کوری و فردریک سنگر ندانم‌گرا بودند.[6][7][8][9][10]
بر اساس زمینه علمی
ریاضی و علوم کامپیوتر
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زمین‌شناس
| ردیف | نگاره | نام | ملیت | دلیل شهرت | توضیحات | منابع |
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| ۱ |  |
دونالد پروترو |  ایالات متحده آمریکا |
دیرینه‌شناسی پستانداران چینه‌شناسی مغناطیسی[lower-alpha 43] |
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| ۲ |  |
جلال شنگور |  ترکیه |
زمین‌ساخت ترکیه و آسیا | استاد دانشگاه فنی استانبول | [393] |
| ۳ |  |
ولادیمیر ورنادسکی |  روسیه اوکراین |
بنیان‌گذار زمین‌شیمی، بیوژئوشیمی[lower-alpha 44] و رادیوژئولوژی[lower-alpha 45] | [394] |
علوم مهندسی
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علوم انسانی
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واژه‌نامه
- Immortality
- Some form of deity or higher power
- God
- A universal spirit or higher power
- God or a higher power
- Decision theory
- Bishop–Phelps theorem
- Vendergood language
- Descriptive geometry
- Subsurface
- The Web Conference
- Geometric algebra
- De Morgan algebra
- Dynkin diagram
- Dynkin system
- The Music of the Primes
- Life table
- Nuclear spectroscopy
- Einstein–de Haas effect
- de Haas–van Alphen effect
- Shubnikov–de Haas effect
- Thermal ionisation
- BKS theory
- Bohr–Sommerfeld theory
- laser spectroscopy
- Weak gravity conjecture
- Randall–Sundrum model
- Warped Passages
- Group selection
- Multilevel selection theory
- Daisaku Ikeda
- Isolobal principle
- Bateson's cube
- Purinergic signalling
- Crile mosquito clamp
- Opponent process
- Machiavellian intelligence
- Brain: A Journal of Neurology
- Restriction modification system
- Epidemic Intelligence Service
- Homologous recombination
- Neutral theory of molecular evolution
- Magnetostratigraphy
- Biogeochemistry
- Radiogeology
- AeroVironment
- Steam pumps
- 16 Personality Factors
- Cumulative recorder
- Air crib
- Teaching machine
- Verbal summator
- Therapeutic techniques for children
- Student-centered learning
- The Person-centered approach
- General Problem Solver
- Pirahã people
- Papyrology
- Room 40
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Mathematics is a presuppositionless science. To found it I do not need God, as does Kronecker, or the assumption of a special faculty of our understanding attuned to the principle of mathematical induction, as does Poincaré, or the primal intuition of Brouwer, or, finally, as do Russell and Whitehead, axioms of infinity, reducibility, or completeness, which in fact are actual, contentual assumptions that cannot be compensated for by consistency proofs.
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This loss shattered Turing's religious faith and led him into atheism...
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He was an atheist...
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Conway propped up the pillow behind his head and grinned. "I like showing off. When I make a new discovery, and I really like telling people about it. I guess I'm not so much a mathematician as a teacher. In America, kids aren't supposed to like mathematics. It's so sad.' Conway sat up suddenly. 'Most people think that mathematics is cold. But it's not at all! For me, the whole damn thing is sensual and exciting. I like what it looks like, and I get a hell of a lot more pleasure out of math than most people do out of art!' He relaxed slightly, and he lowered his voice. 'I feel like an artist. I like beautiful things – they're there already; man doesn't have to create it. I don't believe in God, but I believe that nature is unbelievably subtle and clever. In physics, for instance, the real answer to a problem is usually so subtle and surprising that it wasn't even considered in the first place. That the speed of light is a constant – impossible! Nobody even thought about it. And quantum mechanics is even worse, but it's so beautiful, and it works!
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Hardy... was a stringent atheist...
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Rabid atheist by age six. (His father, Boris, was too, but intensely studied great religious works.)
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Like, for me, as an atheist, bisexual, Jew, I'm gonna go on, uh - oh and Emma Goldman is one of my great heroes and I really think that anarchism is a fantastic principle by which to fashion a utopian society even if we can't get there.
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[I am] completely a-religious—atheist. I find that people seem to think religion brings morals and appreciation of nature.
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I turned secular at the age of 11, by divine revelation. [Laughs.] I was standing on the roof of the house my father built, looking down on the street and suddenly it became very clear to me that there is no God."
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I mention that I am indeed an atheist. To count oneself as an atheist one need not claim to have a proof that no gods exist. One need merely think that the evidence on the god question is in about the same state as the evidence on the werewolf question.
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Evolution moves toward greater complexity, greater elegance, greater knowledge, greater intelligence, greater beauty, greater creativity, and greater levels of subtle attributes such as love. In every monotheistic tradition God is likewise described as all of these qualities, only without any limitation.... So evolution moves inexorably toward this conception of God, although never quite reaching this ideal.
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Another area where he "goes against the flow" is in his spiritual beliefs. As far as religion is concerned, he's a confirmed atheist. "I think it [religion] is a contagious mental disease. . . . The brain has a need to believe it knows a reason for things.
- Marvin Minsky (1988). The Society of Mind. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-0671657130. Retrieved 20 August 2020.
When we reflect on anything for long enough, we're likely to end up with what we sometimes call "basic" questions – ones we can see no way at all to answer. For we have no perfect way to answer even this question: How can one tell when a question has been properly answered? What caused the universe, and why? What is the purpose of life? How can you tell which beliefs are true? How can you tell what is good? These questions seem different on the surface, but all of them share one quality that makes them impossible to answer: all of them are circular! You can never find a final cause, since you must always ask one question more: "What caused that cause?" You can never find any ultimate goal, since you're always obliged to ask, "Then what purpose does that serve?" Whenever you find out why something is good-or is true-you still have to ask what makes that reason good and true. No matter what you discover, at every step, these kinds of questions will always remain, because you have to challenge every answer with, "Why should I accept that answer?" Such circularities can only waste our time by forcing us to repeat, over and over and over again, "What good is Good?" and, "What god made God?
- René Bösch (2007). Labyrinth of Digressions: Tristram Shandy as Perceived and Influenced by Sterne's Early Imitators. Rodopi. p. 265. ISBN 9789042022911.
Maupertuis was an atheist friend of La Mettrie.
- Scott Aaronson (16 January 2007). "Long-awaited God post". Shtetl-Optimized – The Blog of Scott Aaronson. Retrieved 2 September 2020.
If you'd asked, I would've told you that I, like yourself, am what most people would call a disbelieving atheist infidel heretic.
- John D. Cook (24 September 2013). "Interview with Sir Michael Atiyah". www.johndcook.com. Retrieved 2 September 2020.
I’m an optimist. I believe in new ideas, in progress. It’s faith. I’ve recently been thinking about faith. If you’re a religious person, which I’m not, you believe God created the universe.
- Robert Cailliau. "Atheism". www.cailliau.org. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 2 September 2020.
As Richard Dawkins points out, I have no obligation to explain why I am an atheist, it’s for those who believe in a god to supply evidence. Atheism, religion, science and ethics are linked: Religion provides a simple world view based on the existence of one or more gods. Gods are super-beings who are unscrutable, far superior to humans and endowed with supernatural powers. Such a world view starts from the axiom that humans will not be able to understand the world around them. There is no further argument possible: one lives "by the book".
- John Snygg (2011). A New Approach to Differential Geometry Using Clifford's Geometric Algebra. Springer. p. 111. ISBN 9780817682828. Retrieved 2 September 2020.
However, the dogmatic position of the Anglican Church against Darwin's theory of evolution induced him to reexamine his beliefs. He soon evolved into an agnostic and then an atheist.
- John Beloff (1997). Parapsychology: A Concise History (PDF). London: Palgrave Macmillan. p. 47. ISBN 9780312173760. Retrieved 2 September 2020.
He seems an unlikely convert considering that his atheistic views had debarred him from a position at Oxford or Cambridge but his involvement with spiritualism was partly due to his wife, Sophia.
- Augustus De Morgan (1838). An Essay on Probabilities, and Their Application to Life Contingencies and Insurance Offices. London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green & Longmans. p. 22.
There is a word in our language with which I shall not confuse this subject, both on account of the dishonourable use which is frequently made of it, as an imputation thrown by one sect upon another, and of the variety of significations attached to it. I shall use the world Anti-Deism to signify the opinion that there does not exist a Creator who made and sustains the Universe.
- Sophia Elizabeth De Morgan; Augustus De Morgan (1882). Memoir of Augustus De Morgan. London: Cambridge University Press. p. 393. ISBN 9780511709692.
So you called me an atheist vagabond, fancying that Voltaire was an atheist : he was, in fact, theistic to bigotry, and anti-revolutionist to the same extent.
- "Conversation of Eugene Dynkin with Sergei Kuznetsov" (PDF). 25 July 1999. Retrieved 20 August 2020.
I realized that the existence of God is not supported by scientific evidence and became an atheist.
- D. Padgaonkar (8 February 2013). "Kosambi's uplifting idea Of India". Times of India. Retrieved 20 August 2020.
Both were pious — his mother a Hindu, his father a Buddhist — while he himself remained an atheist.
- Marcus Ranum. "Ranum's supports Dawkins's "out campaign" for atheists". Retrieved 2 September 2020.
Generally, I do not get a lot of satisfaction out of being identified with causes or logos. But – a couple of years ago, when Richard Dawkins started his "out campaign" for atheists, I thought that showing my support was not a bad idea.
- Marcus du Sautoy (28 October 2008). "Science Extra: Marcus du Sautoy steps into Dawkins' boots". London: The Guardian. Retrieved 2 September 2020.
- Laurent Schwartz (2001). A Mathematician Grappling With His Century. Springer. p. 193. ISBN 9783764360528.
My parents were atheists, I was an atheist, I never really felt Jewish.
- Alan Sokal (2010). Beyond the Hoax: Science, Philosophy and Culture. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0199561834. Retrieved 20 August 2020.
Biblical scholar Jacques Berlinerblau points out, in the book, that most contemporary atheists and agnostics — myself included, I must confess — are astoundingly ignorant of the details of the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament and the Qur'an (not to mention the Bhagavad Gita and the Tripitaka, one could add). ... When all is said and done, I see no reason to amend my judgment that the existence of the Jewish, Christian, Islamic or Hindu gods is about as plausible, given the currently available evidence, as the existence of Zeus or Thor.
- Steven G. Krantz (2002). Mathematical Apocrypha: Stories and Anecdotes of Mathematicians and the Mathematical. Mathematical Association of America. p. 202. ISBN 9780883855393. Retrieved 2 September 2020.
Steinhaus was an outspoken atheist.
- Anita Burdman Feferman; Solomon Feferman (2004). Alfred Tarski: Life and Logic. Cambridge University Press. p. 39. ISBN 978-0521714013.
Most of the Socialist Party members were also in favor of assimilation, and Tarski's political allegiance was socialist at the time. So, along with its being a practical move, becoming more Polish than Jewish was an ideological statement and was approved by many, though not all, of his colleagues. As to why Tarski, a professed atheist, converted, that just came with the territory and was part of the package: if you were going to be Polish then you had to say you were Catholic.
- Howard B. Rock; Paul A. Gilje; Robert Asher, eds. (1995). American Artisans: Crafting Social Identity, 1750–1850. JHU Press. p. 115. ISBN 9780801850295.
Wright was the son of a Connecticut farmer and teacher who moved his family to the Ohio frontier in 1810 to start a farm and open an academy. He was a quirky man who rejected evangelicalism for atheism, and Garrisonianism for the Liberty party, and then the Free Soilers.
- Lawrence B. Goodheart (1990). Abolitionist, Actuary, Atheist: Elizur Wright and the Reform Impulse. Kent State Univ Pr. ISBN 978-0873383974. Retrieved 20 August 2020.
Biographer describes him as "an evangelical atheist, an impassioned actuary, a liberal who advocated state regulation, an individualist who championed social cooperation, and a very private public crusader"
- Carol Parikh (2008). The Unreal Life of Oscar Zariski. Springer. p. 5. ISBN 9780387094298. Retrieved 2 September 2020.
and yet it did, even though since moving into the boarding house he had become an atheist and most of his friends, including his best friend, were Russians.
- Joseph McCabe (1945). A Biographical Dictionary of Ancient, Medieval, and Modern Freethinkers. Haldeman-Julius Publications. Retrieved 3 September 2020.
He was not only a distinguished German physicist and one of the most famous inventors on the staff at the Zeiss optical works at Jena but a notable social reformer, By a generous scheme of profit-sharing he virtually handed over the great Zeiss enterprise to the workers. Abbe was an intimate friend of Haeckel and shared his atheism (or Monism). Leonard Abbot says in his life of Ferrer that Abbe had "just the same ideas and aims as Ferrer.
- Fay Ajzenberg-Selove (1994). A Matter of Choices: Memoirs of a Female Physicist. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers UP. ISBN 978-0813520353.
I explained carefully to Louis that I was a Jew and an atheist...
- Alice Shalvi (7 February 2009). "Fay Ajzenberg-Selove". Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia. Retrieved 3 September 2020.
- "Prominent Russians: Zhores Alferov". RT.com. Retrieved 3 September 2020.
In public life the scientist is a strong supporter of communism, an atheist strongly objecting to advancement of religious education in Russia, and proponent of science and knowledge as the means to see a better future.
- "Zhores I. Alferov". NNDB.com. Retrieved 3 September 2020.
- Jim Al-Khalili. "intro BBC - Radio 4 - Science Explorer: Jim Al-Khalili featured in The Life Scientific". BBC.co.uk.com.
I find it more comfortable to say I'm an atheist, and for that I probably have someone like Dawkins to thank.
- "Jim Al-Khalili: 'I'm a cuddly atheist. I don't need to tell my mum her faith is stupid'". The independent. 23 December 2012. Retrieved 29 August 2020.
There is no God.' It's not going to happen. If people turn away from religion it is because they see there is no need in their worldview for a supernatural being guiding how they live their lives.
- Philip W. Anderson (2011). "Imaginary Friend, Who Art in Heaven". More and Different: Notes from a Thoughtful Curmudgeon. World Scientific. p. 177. ISBN 9789814350129.
We atheists can, as he does, argue that, with the modern revolution in attitudes toward homosexuals, we have become the only group that may not reveal itself in normal social discourse.
- Theresa Levitt (2009). The Shadow of Enlightenment: Optical and Political Transparency in France 1789-1848. London: Oxford University Press. p. 105. ISBN 978-0199544707.
The same Arago who spent his time criticizing unfounded myths now peddled them. Arago the atheist now spoke of souls.
- "'He brings a humanness to (science) that's very refreshing'". Rediff On The News. Retrieved 3 September 2020.
Although he is an atheist, Dr Ashtekar says, his attitude toward work is from the Hindu religious text, the Bhagavad Gita.
- John Ellis, D. Amati (2000). "Biographical notes on John Bell". Quantum Reflections. Cambridge University Press. p. xi. ISBN 978-0-521-63008-5. Retrieved 28 May 2012.
By now, he was also a 'Protestant Atheist', which he remained all his life.
- Andrew Whitaker; Mary Bell; Shan Gao (Sep 19, 2016). "1 - John Bell - The Irish Connection". Quantum Nonlocality and Reality: 50 Years of Bell's Theorem. Cambridge University Press. p. 8. ISBN 978-1-107-10434-1.
John Bell was certainly not interested in Protestantism as such – his wife Mary [33] has reported that he was an atheist most of his life.
- "The Tipp Sage". Irishtimes.com. 11 October 2001. Retrieved 20 August 2020.
The Bernals were originally Sephardic Jews who came to Ireland in 1840 from Spain via Amsterdam and London. They converted to Catholicism and John was Jesuit-educated. John enthusiastically supported the Easter Rising and, as a boy, he organised a Society for Perpetual Adoration. He moved away from religion as an adult, becoming an atheist.
. - "Percy Williams Bridgman". NNDB.com. Retrieved 3 September 2020.
He was raised in the Congregational Church, but faith in God clashed with his well-known analytical nature and he told his family as a young man that he could not in good conscience become a church member.
- Maila L. Walter (1990). Science and Cultural Crisis: An Intellectual Biography of Percy Williams Bridgman (1882-1961). Stanford University Press. pp. 14–15. ISBN 978-0-8047-1796-0.
Raymond Bridgman was extremely disappointed with his son's rejection of his religious views. Near the end of his life, however, he offered a conciliatory interpretation that allowed him to accept Percy's commitment to honesty and integrity as a moral equivalent to religion.
- Ray Monk (2013). Robert Oppenheimer: A Life Inside the Center. Random House LLC. ISBN 978-0-385-50413-3.
In many ways they were opposites; Kemble, the theorist, was a devout Christian, while Bridgman, the experimentalist, was a strident atheist.
- Sean M. Carroll (9 May 2013). "Science and Religion Can't Be Reconciled". Retrieved 20 August 2020.
- Andrew Brown (1997). The neutron and the bomb: a biography of Sir James Chadwick. Oxford University Press. p. 362. ISBN 978-0-19-853992-6.
He was a lifelong atheist and felt no need to develop religious faith as he approached the end of his life.
- S. Vishveshwara (1991). "Leaves from an unwritten diary: S. Chandrasekhar, Reminiscences and Reflections" (PDF). Current Science. pp. 1025–1033. Retrieved 3 September 2020.
In his later years, Chandra had openly admitted to being an atheist which also meant that he subscribed to no religion in the customary sense of the word.
- "Oral Histories, S. Chandrasekhar - Session II". American Institute of Physics. 18 May 1977. Retrieved 20 August 2020.
No. In fact, I can characterize myself definitely as an atheist.
- Warren Allen Smith (2000). Who's who in hell: a handbook and international directory for humanists, freethinkers, naturalists, rationalists, and non-theists. Barricade Books. p. 259. ISBN 978-1-56980-158-1. Retrieved 30 May 2012.
Curie, Pierre (1859—1906) A codiscoverer of radium, Pierre Curie was an atheist.
- Ronald Clark (2011). Einstein: The Life and Times. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4482-0270-6.
That Einstein's attitude was the result more of muddle than agnostic scruple seems clear from a letter which he wrote less than two years later when Paul Ehrenfest ruled himself out from becoming Einstein's successor by roundly declaring himself an atheist.
- Thomas Levenson (2004). Einstein in Berlin. Random House of Canada. p. 172. ISBN 978-0-553-37844-3.
The man he had hoped would succeed him in Prague, Paul Ehrenfest, refiased to compromise his true atheist's principles. Einstein scolded him. Your refusal to acknowledge a religious affiliation" was just this side of willful stupidity, he assured him, with the benefit of recent experience. Once he became a professor Ehrenfest could revert to unbelief.
- Werner Heisenberg; Arnold J. Pomerans. "Physics and Beyond: Encounters and Conversations". New York: Harper & Row. ISBN 978-0061316227.
Werner Heisenberg recollects a friendly conversation among young participants at the 1927 Solvay conference about Einstein's and Planck's views on religion. Wolfgang Pauli, Heisenberg and Dirac took part in it. Among other things, Dirac said: "I cannot understand why we idle discussing religion. If we are honest — and as scientists honesty is our precise duty — we cannot help but admit that any religion is a pack of false statements, deprived of any real foundation. The very idea of God is a product of human imagination.[...] I do not recognize any religious myth, at least because they contradict one another.[...]" Pauli jokingly said: "Well, I'd say that also our friend Dirac has got a religion and the first commandment of this religion is: God does not exist and Paul Dirac is his prophet.
- Linus Pauling & Daisaku Ikeda (1992). A Lifeling Quest for Peace: A Dialogue. Jones & Bartlett. p. 22. ISBN 0-86720-277-7.
... I [Pauling] am not, however, militant in my atheism. The great English theoretical physicist Paul Dirac is a militant atheist. I suppose he is interested in arguing about the existence of God. I am not. It was once quipped that there is no God and Dirac is his prophet.
- Helge Kragh (1990). Dirac: A Scientific Biography. Cambridge University Press. pp. 256–257. ISBN 978-0-521-38089-8.
- Sara Lippincott (30 August 2009). "Short on words, long on concepts". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 3 September 2020.
Dirac was contemptuous of philosophy and, as many scientists do, professed atheism. But it was a narrow sort, mainly dismissive of religious orthodoxy. In notes he wrote in 1933, he embraces another creed: "[T]his article of faith is that the human race will continue to live for ever and will develop and progress without limit . . . Living is worthwhile if one can contribute in some small way to this endless chain of progress.
- Helen Brown (23 Jan 2009). "The Strangest Man: the Hidden Life of Paul Dirac by Graham Farmelo". The Telegraph. Retrieved 3 September 2020.
Dirac’s story ends with a whimper. As a young man he had joked that physicists were all washed up by 30 and as he aged his powers waned. The Cambridge physics department took away his parking space and an outraged Manci insisted he take up a fellowship at Florida State University. He died in 1984, aged 82. An atheist, he was buried under a gravestone chosen by Manci. It read “because God said it should be so.
- H. B. G. Casimir (2010). Haphazard Reality: Half a Century of Science. Amsterdam University Press. p. 151. ISBN 9789089642004.
Kramers was certainly not a dogmatic atheist like, for instance, Dirac in his younger years, whose attitude was summed up by Pauli in one famous sentence: "Our friend Dirac has a religion; and the main tenet of that religion is: 'There is no God and Dirac was his prophet.
- Helge Kragh (1990). "Dirac: A Scientific Biography". Cambridge University Press. p. 82. ISBN 978-0521380898. Retrieved 20 August 2020.
- "Nobel Laureate Cried Only Once: when he learned that Einstein had died". Newspapers.com. 16 July 2017. Retrieved 20 August 2020.
- Walter J. Moore (1994). A Life of Erwin Schrödinger. Cambridge University Press. pp. 289–290. ISBN 978-0-521-46934-0.
In one respect, however, he is not a romantic: he does not idealize the person of the beloved, his highest praise is to consider her his equal. "When you feel your own equal in the body of a beautiful woman, just as ready to forget the world for you as you for her - oh my good Lord - who can describe what happiness then. You can live it, now and again - you cannot speak of it." Of course, he does speak of it, and almost always with religious imagery. Yet at this time he also wrote, "By the way, I never realized that to be nonbelieving, to be an atheist, was a thing to be proud of. It went without saying as it were." And in another place at about this same time: "Our creed is indeed a queer creed. You others, Christians (and similar people), consider our ethics much inferior, indeed abominable. There is that little difference. We adhere to ours in practice, you don't." Whatever problems they may have had in their love affair, the pangs of conscience were not among them. Sheila was as much an unbeliever as Erwin, but in a less complex, more realistic way. She was never entirely convinced by his vedantic theology.
- Andrea Diem-Lane. Spooky Physics. MSAC Philosophy Group. p. 42. ISBN 978-1-56543-080-8.
In terms of religion, Schrodinger fits in the atheist camp. He even lost a marriage proposal to his love, Felicie Krauss, not only due to his social status but his lack of religious affiliation. He was known as a freethinker who did not believe in god. But interestingly Schrodinger had a deep connection to Hinduism, Buddhism, and Eastern philosophy in general. Erwin studied numerous books on Eastern thought as well as the Hindu scriptures. He was enthralled with Vedanta thought and connected ideas of oneness and unity of mind with his research on quantum physics, specifically wave mechanics.
- Moore, Walter (1994). A Life of Erwin Schrödinger. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-46934-0.
Schopenhauer often called himself an atheist, as did Schrodinger, and if Buddhism and Vedanta can be truly described as atheistic religions, both the philosopher and his scientific disciple were indeed atheists. They both rejected the idea of a "personal God, and Schopenhauer thought that pantheism is only a euphemism for atheism.
- Moore, Walter (1989). Schrödinger: Life and Thought. ISBN 0-521-43767-9.
He rejected traditional religious beliefs (Jewish, Christian, and Islamic) not on the basis of any reasoned argument, nor even with an expression of emotional antipathy, for he loved to use religious expressions and metaphors, but simply by saying that they are naive.
- Walter J. Moore (1992). Schrödinger: Life and Thought. Cambridge University Press. p. 4. ISBN 978-0-521-43767-7.
He claimed to be an atheist, but he always used religious symbolism and believed his scientific work was an approach to the godhead.
- "Erwin Schrodinger" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 May 2014. Retrieved 3 September 2020.
He claimed to be an atheist, but he used religious symbolism and believed that his scientific work was 'an approach to God.
- Gennady Gorelik; Antonina W. Bouis (2005). The World of Andrei Sakharov: A Russian Physicist's Path to Freedom. Oxford University Press. p. 356. ISBN 978-0-19-515620-1.
Apparently Sakharov did not need to delve any deeper into it for a long time, remaining a totally nonmilitant atheist with an open heart.
- Gennadiĭ Efimovich Gorelik; Antonina W. Bouis (2005). The World of Andrei Sakharov: A Russian Physicist's Path to Freedom. Oxford University Press. p. 158. ISBN 978-0-19-515620-1.
Sakharov was not invited to this seminar. Like most of the physicists of his generation, he was an atheist.
- Todd K. Shackelford; Viviana A. Weekes-Shackelford, eds. (2012). The Oxford Handbook of Evolutionary Perspectives on Violence, Homicide, and War. Oxford University Press. p. 465. ISBN 978-0-19-973840-3.
The Soviet dissident most responsible for defeating communism, Andrei Sakharov, was an atheist.
- Jason Boyett (3 September 2010). "Stephen Hawking says there's no creator God; the twitterverse reacts". The Washington Post.
- Stanley-Becker Isaac (15 October 2018). "Stephen Hawking feared race of 'superhumans' able to manipulate their own DNA". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on 15 October 2018. Retrieved 3 September 2020.
- Alan S. Thorndike (2007). Quantum Mechanics at the Crossroads: New Perspectives From History, Philosophy And Physics. Springer. p. 71. ISBN 978-3-540-32663-2.
Asked to join Le Conseil de l'Union Catholique des Scientifiques Français, Louis declined because, he said, he had ceased the religious practices of his youth.
- John Kimball (2015). Physics Curiosities, Oddities, and Novelties. CRC Press. p. 323. ISBN 978-1-4665-7636-0.
- R. S. Cohen; Raymond J. Seeger (1975). Ernst Mach, Physicist and Philosopher. Springer. p. 158. ISBN 978-90-277-0016-2.
And Mach, in personal conviction, was a socialist and an atheist.
- Gregory Scott Charak (2007). Between Soul and Precision: Ernst Mach's Biological Empiricism and the Social Democratic Philosophy of Science. ProQuest. p. 94. ISBN 978-0-549-12973-8.
Both make explicit claims against the pseudo-problems generated by materialism, and although Mach the atheist would have no gripe with irreligion per se, as a pacifist and a socialist he was indeed an ardent proponent of peace.
- Helge Kragh (2004). Matter And Spirit In The Universe: Scientific And Religious Preludes To Modern Cosmology. OECD Publishing. p. 55. ISBN 978-1-86094-469-7.
The Austrian positivist physicist and philosopher Ernst Mach was nominally a Catholic, but in reality he was an atheist and strongly opposed to Christian doctrines.
- Eugene Paul Wigner; Andrew Szanton (1992). Andrew Szanton, ed. The Recollections of Eugene P. Wigner As Told to Andrew Szanton. Basic Books. pp. 60–61. ISBN 978-0-306-44326-8.
Neither did I want to be a clergyman. I liked a good sermon. But religion tells people how to behave and that I could never do. Clergymen also had to assume and advocate the presence of God, and proofs of God's existence seemed to me quite unsatisfactory. People claimed that He had made our earth. Well, how had He made it? With an earth-making machine? Someone once asked Saint Augustine, "What did the Lord do before he created the world?" And Saint Augustine is said to have answered, "He created Hell for people who ask such questions." A retort perhaps made in jest, but I knew of none better. I saw that I could not know anything of God directly, that His presence was a matter of belief, I did not have that belief, and preaching without belief is repulsive. So I could not be a clergyman, however many people might gain salvation. And my parents never pressed the point.
- Ana Elena Azpurua (24 March 2008). "Will Physicists Find God?". Newsweek. p. 3. Retrieved 3 September 2020.
Azpurua: Would it be accurate to say that you are an atheist?; Weinberg: Yes. I don't believe in God, but I don't make a religion out of not believing in God. I don't organize my life around that.
- C. Johnson (6 December 2005). "Duff on Susskind". Discovermagazine. Retrieved 3 September 2020.
Nevertheless, no less a person than Nobel laureate and arch-atheist Steven Weinberg believes that one particular constant of nature - Einstein's cosmological constant Λ - may be anthropically determined.
- Richard Dawkins (2008). "The God Delusion". Mariner Books. ISBN 978-0618918249.
In the book Richard Dawkins identifies Steven Weinberg as an atheist
- Steven Weinberg. "A Designer Universe?". Physlink.com. Retrieved 20 August 2020.
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
- Frank Close (9 August 2001). "Dark side of the moon". The Guardian. p. 8.
When describing a total solar eclipse, Close wrote: "It was simultaneously ghastly, beautiful, supernatural. Even for a 21st century atheist, the vision was such that I thought, "If there is a heaven, this is what its entrance is like." The heavenly vision demanded music by Mozart; instead we had the crickets."
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As for his own Jewish identity, Cohen was an avowed atheist who was cremated after he died, against Jewish tradition. But still he was proud of being Jewish, his daughter said, and even had a kind of “arrogant attitude” about Jewish intelligence.
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which prevented the atheist De Haas had nothing to do with the Catholic piety of Keesom.
- Peter Byrne (2010). The Many Worlds of Hugh Everett III: Multiple Universes, Mutual Assured Destruction, and the Meltdown of a Nuclear Family. p. 29.
Everett was a life-long atheist, but he did not let that stand in his way as St. John's was well-regarded academically and socially.
- "Last outer space repair of Hubble telescope pairs genius of two South Bay women". East Bay Times. 9 May 2009. Retrieved 20 August 2020.
An atheist, Faber speaks like an evangelist as she weaves quantum physics and astronomy to describe the dawn of time. "I think that the story of the creation of the universe is the most inspiring and exciting story science can tell. I mean, who would have thought I could be telling you about events 10 to the minus 35 seconds after the big bang?" she said, seated in her cluttered, sunny UC Santa Cruz office amid photos of her two daughters and her husband. "It's just totally inspiring.
- Denis Brian (2008). The Voice of Genius: Conversations with Nobel Scientists and Other Luminaries. Basic Books. p. 49. ISBN 978-0-465-01139-1.
Interviewer: Do you call yourself an agnostic or an atheist? Feynman: An atheist. Agnostic for me would be trying to weasel out and sound a little nicer than I am about this.
- Feynman was of Jews birth, but described himself as "an avowed Atheism" by his early youth in Freethought of the Day, Freedom From Religion Foundation, May 11, 2006.
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Having abandoned the tenets of Judaism at 13, he never wavered in his gentle atheism, nor in his determination to stay away from matters about which he had opinions but no expertise.
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- David Nachmansohn (1979). German-Jewish pioneers in science, 1900–1933: highlights in atomic physics, chemistry, and biochemistry. Springer-Verlag. p. 62. ISBN 978-3540904021. Retrieved 20 August 2020.
James Franck was born in Hamburg, the son of a Jewish banker. ...As he said, science was his God and nature his religion. He did not insist that his daughters attend religious instruction classes (Religionsunterricht) in school. But he was very proud of his Jewish heritage...
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ANDERSON: What, uh, one thing I’m fascinated with is, of course, George Gamow left the university in ’59 [1956], and Edward Teller had left in 1946 [1945] and went to the University of Chicago. But do you have any recollections of maybe some of the, anything between Dr. Marvin and Dr. Gamow, as far as, just before he left and went to Colorado?; NAESER: Ah, no, I don’t know of any. I know Gamow made no, never did hide the fact that he was an atheist, but whether that came into the picture, I don’t know. But the story around the university was that Gamow and Mrs. Gamow were divorced, but they were in the same social circles some of the time, he thought it was better to get out of Washington. That’s why he went to Ohio State.
- Grote Reber. "The Big Bang Is Bunk" (PDF). 21st Century Science Associates. p. 44. Retrieved 28 May 2012.
After the initial mathematical work on relativity the ory had been done, the Big Bang theory itself was invented by a Belgian priest, Georges lemaitre, im proved upon by an avowed atheist, George Gamow, and is now all but universally accepted by those who hold advanced degrees in astronomy and the physical sciences, despite its obvious absurdity.
- Simon Singh (2010). Big Bang. HarperCollins UK. ISBN 978-0-00-737550-9.
Surprisingly, the atheist George Gamow enjoyed the Papal attention given to his field of research.
- Jane Gregory (2005). "Fighting for space". Fred Hoyle's Universe. Oxford University Press. p. 71. ISBN 978-0-19-157846-5.
Gamow was, like Hoyle, an atheist, but he was familiar with organized religion: his grandfather was the Metropolitan, the senior bishop, of Odessa Cathedral.
- "Ginzburg's autobiography". Nobelprize.org. Retrieved 20 August 2020.
I am an atheist, that is, I think nothing exists except and beyond nature.
- "Gordon Gould". NNDB.com. Retrieved 3 September 2020.
- "Gordon Gould". 18 May 2019. Retrieved 20 August 2020.
Born in New York City, Gould was the oldest of three sons. Both his parents were Methodists that were active in their community church, but Gould himself was an atheist.
- Alan Guth (1998). The Inflationary Universe: The Quest for a New Theory of Cosmic Origins. INGRAM PUBLISHER SERVICES US. ISBN 0201328402. Retrieved 20 August 2020.
The question of the origin of the matter in the universe is no longer thought to be beyond the range of science — everything can be created from nothing...it is fair to say that the universe is the ultimate free lunch.
- Ian Sample (17 November 2007). "The God of Small Things". The Guardian. Retrieved 31 August 2020.
Officially, the particle is called the Higgs boson, but its elusive nature and fundamental role in the creation of the universe led a prominent scientist to rename it the God particle. The name has stuck, but makes Higgs wince and raises the hackles of other theorists. "I wish he hadn't done it," he says. "I have to explain to people it was a joke. I'm an atheist, but I have an uneasy feeling that playing around with names like that could be unnecessarily offensive to people who are religious.
- Magdolna Hargittai; Istv n Hargittai (2004). "Candid Science IV: Conversations with Famous Physicists". Imperial College Press. p. 684. ISBN 9781860944161. Retrieved 31 August 2020.
No, I am not religious [...] I consider myself a very moral person but I do not need a religion for that.
- "Raised in a completely nonreligious family, Joliot never attended any church and was a thoroughgoing atheist all his life." Perrin, Francis: "Joliot, Frédéric", Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography Vol. 7 p. 151. Detroit: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2008.
- "Irène Joliot-Curie". Making the Modern World. 17 March 1956. Retrieved 3 September 2020.
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It was to her grandfather, a convinced freethinker, that Irène owed her atheism, later politically expressed as anticlericalism.
- Denis Brian (2005). The Curies: A Biography of the Most Controversial Family in Science. Wiley. p. 389. ISBN 978-0-471-27391-2.
There were no prayers: Irene was deeply atheist.
- Lawrence M. Krauss (26 June 2009). "God and Science Don't Mix: A scientist can be a believer. But professionally, at least, he can't act like one". The Wall Street Journal. p. A15. Retrieved 20 August 2020.
...I had the opportunity to participate in several exciting panel discussions at the World Science Festival in New York City. But the most dramatic encounter took place at the panel strangely titled 'Science, Faith and Religion.'... I ended up being one of two panelists labeled 'atheists.'...". On the 21 June 2012 'Colbert Report, the author of A Universe from Nothing: Why There is Something Rather than Nothing told Colbert: "There is no evidence for any deity.... You don't need him.... There's no need for God." The evolutions of the universe occur "without any supernatural shenanigans.
- Henry F. Schaefer (2003). Science and Christianity: Conflict Or Coherence?. The Apollos Trust. p. 9. ISBN 978-0-9742975-0-7.
I present here two examples of notable atheists. The first is Lev Landau, the most brilliant Soviet physicist of the twentieth century.
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- Babu Gogineni (10 July 2012). "It's the Atheist Particle, actually". Postnoon News. Archived from the original on 11 July 2012. Retrieved 10 July 2012.
Leon Lederman is himself an atheist and he regrets the term, and Peter Higgs who is an atheist too, has expressed his displeasure, but the damage has been done!
- Jack Morrell (2004). "Leslie, Sir John (1766–1832)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Retrieved 3 September 2020.
In these years Leslie was an unsuccessful candidate for the chairs of natural philosophy at the universities of St Andrews and Glasgow respectively. He failed at the former because he was then an extreme whig and an atheist who deplored the Erastianism of many of the Scottish clergy.
- Oliver Knill (14 July 1998). "Supernovae, an alpine climb and space travel". Retrieved 3 September 2020.
Zwicky has dealt critically with religion during his whole life. (Source: "Everybody a genius"). In a diary entry of 1971, he writes "To base the unexplainabilty and the immense wonder of nature onto an other miracle God is unnecessary and not acceptable for any serious thinker.
- Swiss-American Historical Society (2006). Newsletter, Volumes 42-43. The Society. p. 17. Retrieved 20 August 2020.
Zwicky has dealt critically with religion during his whole life. A 1971 diary entry states: "To base the inexplainabilty and the immense wonder of nature upon another miracle, God, is unnecessary and not acceptable for any serious thinker." According to one story, Zwicky once discussed the beginning of the universe with a priest. The priest, quoting Scriptures, stated that the universe had started with "and there is light." Zwicky replied that he would buy this, if instead God had said "and there is electronmagnetism.
- Alfred Driessen; Antoine Suarez (1997). Mathematical undecidability, quantum nonlocality, and the question of the existence of God. Springer Netherlands.
The Dutch Nobel prize-winner, Simon van der Meer expressed this as follows: "As a physicist, you have to have a split personality to be still able to believe in a god.
- Yuval Ne'eman (2003). Studies in memory of Issai Schur. Springer. p. xxi. ISBN 978-0-8176-4208-2.
Unfortunately I am a 100% skeptic (an "Epicurus" in Yiddish), an atheist although not in an aggressive connotation.
- Michael P. Prior (1997). The Bible and Colonialism: A Moral Critique. Continuum International Publishing Group. p. 164. ISBN 978-1-85075-815-0.
Although an atheist, Neeman believes that traditions are important for a revolutionary movement, and he strongly defends the spiritual heritage of the Jewish people, preaches a retum to biblical sources, and is in constant dialogue with the ultra-nationalist-religious groupings.
- K. C. Cole (2012). Something Incredibly Wonderful Happens: Frank Oppenheimer and His Astonishing Exploratorium. University of Chicago Press. pp. 104–105. ISBN 9780226113470.
For the locals, it was as if aliens had landed. "The normal folks were wearing tight jeans and cowboy hats, and here was a rancher who didn't wear a hat," said Pete Richards, who lived on one of the neighboring ranches at the time. “He was skinnier than a rail, he was really hyper. Both he and Jackie swore like sailors. And they were atheists!”.
- Dronamraju, Krishna (2008). Emerging Consequences of Biotechnology: Biodiversity Loss and IPR Issues. World Scientific. p. 413. ISBN 978-981-277-500-9. Retrieved 3 September 2020.
Most of them are either atheists like Albert Einstein and Robert Oppenheimer, or agnostics like JBS Haldane.
- Axelrod, Alan (2009). Risk: Adversaries and Allies: Mastering Strategic Relationships. Sterling Publishing Company, Inc. p. 127. ISBN 978-1-4027-5411-1. Retrieved 3 September 2020.
He was a Jew and Groves was at least conventionally anti-Semitic; but perhaps worse, Oppenheimer practiced no religion at all and was almost certainly an atheist, whereas Groves was the sincerely believing son of an army chaplain.
- Robert L. Park (2008). "Superstition: Belief in the Age of Science". Princeton University Press. Missing or empty
|url=(help) - Sam Harris. "Letter to A Christian Nation". SamHarris.Org. Retrieved 5 June 2010. Quoting Penrose's blurb for Harris's book Letter to a Christian Nation. and refers to himself as an atheist.
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- Bernard Valeur, Jean-Claude Brochon (2001). New Trends in Fluorescence Spectroscopy: Applications to Chemical and Life Sciences. Springer. p. 17. ISBN 978-3-540-67779-6. Retrieved 3 September 2020.
Jean and Francis Perrin held similar political and philosophical ideas. Both were socialists and atheists.
- D. S. Bell (18 July 1992). Obituary: Francis Perrin. The Independent. p. 44. Retrieved 3 September 2020.
After retirement, he remained politically active, defending Andrei Sakharov, and was President of the French Atheists
- Joel Achenbach (23 April 2004). "Worlds Away". Washington Post. p. W15.
By most definitions he would be called an atheist, but he hated the term. 'An atheist has to know a lot more than I know. An atheist is someone who knows there is no god. By some definitions atheism is very stupid.
- Robin Mckie (24 August 1997). "Beauty is... in the measurements". The Observer. p. 14. Retrieved 3 September 2020.
In the end, Sagan... died an uncompromising atheist.
- Santimay Chatterjee; Enakshi Chatterjee (1984). Meghnad Saha, scientist with a vision. National Book Trust, India. p. 5. Retrieved 3 September 2020.
Even though he later came to be known as an atheist, Saha was well-versed in all religious texts— though his interest in them was purely academic.
- Robert S. Anderson (2010). Nucleus and Nation: Scientists, International Networks, and Power in India. University of Chicago Press. p. 602. ISBN 978-0-226-01975-8.
a self-described atheist, saha loved swimming in the river and his devout wife loved the sanctity of the spot. swimming and walking were among the few things they could do together.
- Christine Niles (17 June 2015). "Breaking: schellnhuber appointed to pontifical academy of science". Retrieved 20 August 2020.
He's a controversial appointee because, in addition to being a radical promoter of the theory of man-made climate change, he is an atheist and an advocate of population control
- "Pope Worships The Creator, His Advisor Worships The Creation". 23 June 2015. Retrieved 20 August 2020.
self-professed atheist" who "appears to believe in a Mother Earth.
- George F. R. Fellis; Roger Penrose (2010). "Dennis William sciama" (PDF). Royal Society Publishing. Retrieved 20 August 2020.
- Joel N. Shurkin (2008). Broken Genius: The Rise and Fall of William Shockley, Creator of the Electronic Age. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 133. ISBN 978-0-230-55192-3.
He considered himself an atheist and never went to church.
- Derek Gjertsen (1986). The Newton Handbook. p. 250.
It can hardly have been due to any reluctance on Newton's part to becoming too closely involved with Halley, the well-known atheist.
- Alice Calaprice (2000). The Expanded Quotable Einstein. Princeton: Princeton University Press. p. 218.
- Alice Calaprice (2010). The Ultimate Quotable Einstein. Princeton: Princeton University Press. p. 325-340.
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It was nice to be honoured but I like ‘Mark’ not ‘Sir Mark’. When one’s young, one’s brash and all-knowing; when one’s old, one realises how little one knows. You asked me earlier if I believed in God and the hereafter. I would tend to say no but when one dies one could well be surprised.
- W. M. Goss; W. William Miller Goss; Richard X. McGee (2009). "Last Years". Under the Radar: The First Woman in Radio Astronomy: Ruby Payne-Scott. Springer. p. 253. ISBN 978-3-642-03141-0.
- John S. Rigden (1987). Rabi, Scientist and Citizen. Sloan Foundation Series. New York: Basic Books. p. 23. ISBN 0-465-06792-1.
- Rod Dreher (April 20, 2011). "Martin J. Rees Wins 2011 Templeton Prize". Templeton Report. Archived from the original on 8 August 2013. Retrieved 4 August 2013.
As it turns out, Lord Rees is an atheist, though one who said in a recent interview that he is not allergic to religion, and that he enjoys participating in aesthetic and cultural activities of the Anglican church, in which he was raised.
- Nicholas Shakespeare (21 Oct 2008). "Tasmania: Alarmed by bumps in the starlit night". The Telegraph. Retrieved 3 September 2020.
Reber was a diehard atheist, and whatever he understood of those bumps in the night is not certain.
- Ryan Somma (2012). Enlightenment Living, Essays on Living a Virtuous Scientific. ideonexus. Retrieved 20 August 2020.
- Jane Gregory (2005). "Fighting for space". Fred Hoyle's Universe. Oxford University Press. p. 143. ISBN 978-0-19-157846-5.
According to Hoyle: "I am an atheist, but as far as blowing up the world in a nuclear war goes, I tell them not to worry."
- "David Deutsch". Philosophy Now'. 2001. Retrieved 31 August 2020.
First of all, I do not believe in the supernatural, so I take it for granted that consciousness has a material explanation. I also do not believe in insoluble problems, therefore I believe that this explanation is accessible in principle to reason, and that one day we will understand consciousness just as we today understand what life is, whereas once this was a deep mystery.
- "Joseph-Jérôme Lefrançais de Lalande". University of Lisbon. Retrieved 18 August 2020.
He studied at the Jesuit College in Lyon and at this stage he nearly decided to join the Jesuit Order. In fact it was his parents who encouraged him to continue his education by going to Paris to study law, which he did. It is somewhat ironical that Lalande, who would later become renowned as an atheist, should have come so close to becoming a Jesuit.
- Lisa Curtis-Wendlandt; Paul Gibbard; Karen Green (2016). "Political Ideas of Enlightenment Women: Virtue and Citizenship". Routledge. p. 85. ISBN 978-1-317-07876-0.
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- Brian, Dennis (2008). The Voice of Genius: Conversations with Nobel Scientists and Other Luminaries. Basic Books. p. 117. ISBN 978-0-465-01139-1.
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The grandson of a vicar on his father’s side, Blackett respected religious observances that were established social customs, but described himself as agnostic or atheist.
- Chris Dean. "Nicolaas Bloembergen - Science Video Interview". Vega Science Trust. Retrieved 10 May 2020.
When asked about being religious, Bloembergen said No.
- "Val Fitch". NNDB.com. Retrieved 3 September 2020.
- Herman Wouk (2010). The language God talks on science and religion (1st ed.). New York, NY: Little, Brown and Co. p. 17. ISBN 978-0-316-09675-1.
- Chris Dean. "Riccardo Giacconi - Science Video Interview". Vega Science Trust. Retrieved 10 May 2020.
When asked about being religious, Giacconi said No. Giacconi also said that he doesn't believe in an afterlife, apart from just a rearrangement of molecules and atoms of your body. He also expressed his idea that irrational thinking is very dangerous and wished that scientists should inject more rationality in the world.
- Chris Dean. "Ivar Giaever - Science Video Interview". Vega Science Trust. Retrieved 10 May 2006.
Interviewer: Are you religious? Giaver: Absolutely not. [...] I'm not religious and I don't like religion. I think religion is to blame for a lot of the ills in this world.
- Ivar Giaever (2017). "I am the smartest man I know" : a Nobel laureate's difficult journey. Singapore: World Scientific Publishing. ISBN 978-981-310-917-9.
- Victor M. Amela (June 20, 2017). "Sheldon Glashow, Nobel Prize in physics for the electroweak theory" (PDF). La Contra - La Vanguardia. Retrieved 3 September 2020.
I am a practising atheist.
- Gill Watson. "Roy J. Glauber - Science Video Interview". Vega Science Trust. Retrieved 10 May 2020.
Glauber says that he has no feelings towards the intelligent designer approach to science [...] He says that what has been discovered (physical world) is enormously interesting but it tells us nothing about intelligent design and certainly nothing at all about life.
- Pablo Jáuregui (15 March 2014). "Si miras el mundo desde la perspectiva científica, no necesitas la religión". ELMUNDO. Retrieved 10 May 2020.
Interviewer: Do you think that science and religion can be compatible, or do you consider, like the Darwinist Richard Dawkins, that the scientific vision cannot be reconciled with faith? Haroche: [...] In my case, I am not religious nor do I believe in God, but I have colleagues who are and are capable of maintaining a coexistence between their faith and their scientific work, without this interfering with the quality of their research. But to me this never ceases to amaze me, because I think that if you look at the world from a scientific perspective, you don't need religion.
- Chris Dean. "Masatoshi Koshiba - Science Video Interview". Vega Science Trust. Retrieved 10 May 2020.
Interviewer: Are you religious?" Koshiba: "/(You Mean) God?... I don't know... You know... science deals only (with?) those things which you can confirm by observation or by experiment...God doesn't come into that (category). So God...the problem of God, is not a problem in science.
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I was a nominal church going Christian until I left home for Cambridge University on a scholarship when, to my great relief, I could drop all religion and become my natural atheist self.
- Nuño Domínguez (9 October 2019). "Michel Mayor: There is no place for God in the Universe". Spain's News. Retrieved 10 May 2020.
The religious vision says that God decided that there should only be life here on Earth and created it. Scientific facts say that life is a natural process. I think the only answer is to research and find the answer, but for me there is no place for God in the universe.
- John D. Barrow (2000). "The book of nothing : vacuums, voids, and the latest ideas about the origins of the universe" (1st Vintage Books ed.). New York: Vintage Books. p. 136. ISBN 978-0-375-72609-5. Retrieved 3 September 2020.
- Alexey Eremoenko (9 October 2014). "Q&A: Russian Nobel Laureate on Fun, God and the 'Ideal Physicist'". The Moscow Times. Retrieved 3 September 2020.
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Smeenk: I wanted to ask you another I guess more personal question. I don't know if you hold any religious views, but if you do, how do those interact with your research work? Peebles: I don't. Actually, I guess the term I like to use is a convinced agnostic. I get offended by people who try to give me religious arguments. Why should I pay attention to these arguments? But I also get a little offended by people who tell me, "Of course, religion is bunk." How do you know? It's just an entirely different field of operation and actually I do like the words and music of some religions, so I have sat with pleasure through services - aside from the sermon. So no, I don't have any religious feelings at all.
- George Pendle (3 July 2014). "The search for Earth 2.0". The Economist. Retrieved 31 August 2020.
I pointed out a few examples, and he could not answer. So I became an atheist
- "Very different paths to God". The Daily telegraph. 22 December 2009. Retrieved 10 May 2020.
I have been described by one of my colleagues as a "militant agnostic" with my tagline, "I don't know, and neither do you!". I take this hard-line, fence-sitting position because it is the only position consistent with both my scientific ethos and my conscience.
- I. Hargittai; Hargittai, M. (2006). Candid Science VI: More Conversations with Famous Scientists. Imperial College Press. p. 749. ISBN 978-1-86094-885-5.
Jack Steinberger: I'm now a bit anti-Jewish since my last visit to the synagogue, but my atheism does not necessarily reject religion.
- V. L. Ginzburg (2005). About Science, Myself and Others. CRC Press. p. 253. ISBN 978-0-7503-0992-9.
Nowadays, when we are facing manifestations of religious and. more often, pseudoreligious feelings, it is appropriate to mention that Igor Evgenevich was a convinced and unreserved atheist.
- E. L. Feinberg; A. V. Leonidov (2011). Physicists: Epoch and Personalities (2 ed.). World Scientific. p. 86. ISBN 9789812834164.
- Rory Carroll (21 June 2013). "Kip Thorne: physicist studying time travel tapped for Hollywood film". the Guardian. Retrieved 12 May 2020.
Thorne grew up in an academic, Mormon family in Utah but is now an atheist. "There are large numbers of my finest colleagues who are quite devout and believe in God, ranging from an abstract humanist God to a very concrete Catholic or Mormon God. There is no fundamental incompatibility between science and religion. I happen to not believe in God.
- Chris Dean. "Martinus J.F. Veltman - Science Video Interview". Vega Science Trust. Retrieved 10 May 2020.
Interviewer: "What is your view about God and religion? Veltman: "We are living in a totally ridiculous world. We have all kinds of things from horoscopes to Zen Buddhism to faith healers to religions to what have you. [...] "So for science it's very essential that we take a position that through the scientific method that keeps us away of all the irrationalities that seem to dominate human activities. And I think we should stay there. And the fact that I'm busy in science has little or nothing to do with religion. In fact I protect myself, I don't want to have to do with religion. Because once I start with that I don't know where it will end. But probably I will be burned or shot or something in the end. I don't want anything to do with it. I talk about things I can observe and other things I can predict and for the rest you can have it.
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Since his childhood in Vienna Bondi had been an atheist, developing from an early age a view on religion that associated it with repression and intolerance. This view, which he shared with Hoyle, never left him. On several occasions he spoke out on behalf of freethinking, so-called, and became early on active in British atheist or "humanist" circles. From 1982 to 1999, he was president of the British Humanist Association, and he also served as president of the Rationalist Press Association of United Kingdom." Helge Kragh: "Bondi, Hermann
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In a letter to the Guardian, Jane Wynne Willson, Vice-President of the British Humanist Association, added to his obituary: "Also president of the Rationalist Press Association from 1982 until his death, and with a particular interest in Indian rationalism, Hermann was a strong supporter of the Atheist Centre in Andhra Pradesh. He and his wife Christine visited the centre a number of times, and the hall in the science museum there bears his name. When presented with a prestigious international award, he divided a large sum of money between the Atheist Centre and women's health projects in Mumbai.
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Callaghan was brought up a Methodist, but showed a typically scientific interest in other faiths, trying out Anglicanism, Catholicism and Marxism, before finally settling for atheism.
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George Smoot, a committed atheist..
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Susskind is a card-carrying atheist.
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...Victor Weisskopf, who describes himself as an atheist Viennese Jew....
- Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich (2004). R.A. Sunyaev, ed. Zeldovich: Reminiscences. CRC Press. p. 69. ISBN 9780415287906.
I think that you know me well enough: I am an absolute atheist, and all days of the week are completely the same to me.
- Andrei Sakharov: Facets of a Life. Atlantica Séguier Frontières. 1991. p. 599. ISBN 9782863320969.
Speaking about religion, Yakov Borisovich could say unambiguously, I'm an absolute atheist
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...I don't believe in God. I tell people I'm an atheist, but a nice atheist.
- Gordon Stein (1988). The encyclopedia of unbelief. 1. Prometheus Books. p. 594. ISBN 978-0-87975-307-8.
Svante Arrhenius (I859-I927), recipient of the Nobel Prize in chemistry (I903), was a declared atheist and the author of The Evolution of the Worlds and other works on cosmic physics.
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When asked by Rod Liddle in the documentary The Trouble with Atheism "Give me your views on the existence, or otherwise, of God", Peter Atkins replied "Well it's fairly straightforward: there isn't one. And there's no evidence for one, no reason to believe that there is one, and so I don't believe that there is one. And I think that it is rather foolish that people do think that there is one."
- Robert K. Wilcox (2010). The Truth About the Shroud of Turin: Solving the Mystery. Regnery Gateway. p. 23. ISBN 978-1-59698-600-8.
In 1902, Marcellin P. Berthelot, often called the founder of modern organic chemistry, was one of France's most celebrated scientists—if not the world's. He was permanent secretary of the French Academy, having succeeded the giant Louis Pasteur, the renowned microbiologist. Unlike Delage, an agnostic, Berthelot was an atheist—and militantly so.
- Thomas de Wesselow (2012). The Sign: The Shroud of Turin and the Secret of the Resurrection. Penguin. ISBN 978-1-101-58855-0.
Although Delage made it clear that he did not regard Jesus as the resurrected Son of God, his paper upset the atheist members of the Academy, including its secretary, Marcellin Berthelot, who prevented its full publication in the Academy's bulletin.
- Ramesh Chopra (2005). Academic Dictionary Of Philosophy. Gyan Books. p. 143. ISBN 9788182052246.
Renowned French chemist. He was one of the greatest chemists in Europe at the time. He made innumerable discoveries in the science, and even the restored royalty made him a Peer of France, although he worked politically with the anti-clericals. He was closely associated with Arago and shared his atheism.
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But Nobel, both atheist and a socialist...
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As a self-described Jewish atheist,
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Liberato Cardellini: A final and more personal question: You defined yourself as “an atheist who is moved by religion”. Looking at the tenor of your life and the many goals you have achieved, one wonders where your inner force comes from. Roald Hoffmann: The atheism and the respect for religion come form the same source. I observe that in every culture on Earth, absolutely every one, human beings have constructed religious systems. There is a need in us to try to understand,to see that there is something that unites us spiritually. So scientists who do not respect religion fail in their most basic task—observation. Human beings need the spiritual. The same observation reveals to me a multitude of religious constructions—gods of nature, spirits, the great monotheistic religions. It seems to me there can’t be a God or gods; there are just manifestations of a human-constructed spirituality.
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I am a devout atheist – nothing else makes any sense to me and I must admit to being bewildered by those, who in the face of what appears so obvious, still believe in a mystical creator.
- M. Joan. Dawson (2013). Paul Lauterbur and the Invention of MRI. Cambridge: The MIT Press. ISBN 978-0262019217.
Paul became an atheist, revering intellectual honesty and the quest for truth.
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It is a scene I won’t forget in a hurry: Jean-Marie Lehn, French winner of the Nobel prize in chemistry, defending his atheism at a packed public conference at the new Alexandria Library in Egypt.
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“[When asked by a student if he believes in any gods]: Oh, no. Absolutely not... The biggest advantage to believing in God is you don't have to understand anything, no physics, no biology. I wanted to understand.
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A confirmed agnostic, he [Bateson] was converted to atheism after attending a dinner where he tried to converse with a woman who was a creationist. "For many years what had been good enough for Darwin was good enough for me. Not long after that dreadful dinner, Richard Dawkins wrote to me to ask whether I would publicly affirm my atheism. I could see no reason why not.
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Although he became an atheist early in life and resented the strict upbringing of his parents’ religion, he identified with Jewish culture and joined several international fights against anti-Semitism.
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What I don't like about Richard [Dawkins] is not so much what he knows or doesn't know as the dogmatic way in which he says things. I think that is a poor advertisement for science, because the whole thing about being a scientist is that you shouldn't be prejudiced, you should have an open mind. So, I don't believe in God but that is a belief, not some thing I know. I believe I love my husband, but I couldn't prove it to you one way or the other. How could I? I just know I do. My particular belief is that there is no Deity out there, but I can't prove it and therefore I would not have the temerity to tell other people they're wrong. The coinage of proof is not appropriate for belief and Dawkins thinks it is. But if you keep an open mind, that doesn't mean you swallow anything whole. As someone has said, 'Believing in anything is as bad as believing in nothing.
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The biologist Francois Jacob (who shared the Nobel Prize with Jacques Monod) admits that he is an atheist, but he finds, parallel to the material nature of the universe, another aspect — in man — which is not reductible to the first.
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... I believe that a reasonable case can be made for saying, not that we believe in God because He exists but rather that He exists because we believe in Him. [...] Considered as an element of the world, God has the same degree and kind of objective reality as do other products of mind. [...] I regret my disbelief in God and religious answers generally, for I believe it would give satisfaction and comfort to many in need of it if it possible to discover and propound good scientific and philosophic reasons to believe in God. [...] To abdicate from the rule of reason and substitute for it an authentication of belief by the intentness and degree of conviction with which we hold it can be perilous and destructive. [...] I am a rationalist—something of a period piece nowadays, I admit [...]
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The Nobel Prize-winning geneticist and stringent atheist Thomas Hunt Morgan was developing the chromosome theory of heredity by examining his swarm of mutated Drosophila (fruit flies) through a jeweler's loupe.
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Morgan's passion for experimentation was symptomatic of his general scepticism and his distaste for speculation. He believed only what could be proven. He was said to be an atheist, and I have always believed that he was. Everything I knew about him—his scepticism, his honesty—was consistent with disbelief in the supernatural.
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[Religion] is not an easy subject to deal with, but as zoologists we must do our best to observe what actually happens rather than listen to what is supposed to be happening. If we do this, we are forced to the conclusion that, in a behavioural sense, religious activities consist of the coming together of large groups of people to perform repeated and prolonged submissive displays to appease a dominant individual. The dominant individual takes many forms in different cultures, but always has the common factor of immense power. [...] If these submissive actions are successful, the dominant individual is appeased. [...] The dominant individual is usually, but not always, referred to as a god. Since none of these gods exist in a tangible form, why have they been invented? To find the answer to this we have to go right back to our ancestral origins.
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Man's evolution as a neotenous ape has put him in a similar position to the dog's. He becomes sexually mature and yet he still needs a parent — a super-parent, one as impressive to him as a man must be to a dog. The answer was to invent a god — either a female super-parent in the shape of a Mother Goddess, or a male god in the shape of God the Father, or perhaps even a whole family of gods. Like real parents they would both protect, punish and be obeyed. [...] These — the houses of the gods — the temples, the churches and the cathedrals — are buildings apparently made for giants, and a space visitor would be surprised to find on closer examination that these giants are never at home. Their followers repeatedly visit them and bow down before them, but they themselves are invisible. Only their bell-like cries can be heard across the land. Man is indeed an imaginative species.
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[Müller] was an atheist...
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Dan Barker:When we invited Robert Sapolsky to speak at one of out national conventions to receive our 'Emperor Has No Clothes Award', Robert wrote to me, 'Sure! Get the local Holiday Inn to put up a sign that says Welcome, Hell-bound Atheists!' [...] So, welcome you hell-bound atheist to Freethought Radio, Robert." Sapolsky: "Well, delighted to be among my kindred souls." [...] Annie Laurie Gaylor: So how long have you been a kindred non-soul, what made you an atheist Robert?" Sapolsky: "Oh, I was about fourteen or so... I was brought up very very religiously, orthodox Jewish background and major-league rituals and that sort of thing [...] and something happened when I was fourteen, and no doubt what it was really about was my gonads or who knows what, but over the course of a couple of weeks there was some sort of introspective whatever, where I suddenly decided this was all gibberish. And, among other things, also deciding there's no free will, but not in a remotely religious context, and deciding all of this was nonsense, and within a two week period all of that belief stuff simply evaporated.
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Among celebrity atheists with much biographical data, we find leading psychologists and psychoanalysts. We could provide a long list, including...Jacques Lacan...
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All of which makes the Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Literary Prize a matter of bemusement. "Yes, tell me," he says, frowning. "What is it, and why are they giving it to an old Jewish atheist who has unkind things to say about Zionism?
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Biologist George Wald dismissed anything besides physicalism with, "I will not believe that philosophically because I do not want to believe in God. Therefore, I choose to believe in that which I know is scientifically impossible: spontaneous generation arising to evolution.
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Either God can do nothing to stop catastrophes, or he doesn't care to, or he doesn't exist. God is either impotent, evil, or imaginary. Take your pick, and choose wisely
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William Bateson was a very militant atheist and a very bitter man, I fancy. Knowing that I was interested in biology, they invited me when I was still a school girl to go down and see the experimental garden. I remarked to him what I thought then, and still think, that doing research must be the most wonderful thing in the world and he snapped at me that it wasn’t wonderful at all, it was tedious, disheartening, annoying and anyhow you didn’t need an experimental garden to do research.
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Bethune was a communist and an atheist with a healthy contempt for his evangelical father.
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Moleschott's atheism is much more prominent, for example, and he declares absurd Liebig's opinion that insights into the laws of nature inevitably lead us to the notion of a Being knowable only through revelation.
- "During sixty years from 1937 he also wrote over forty articles on the origins, distribution, and nature of life, taking the stance of a 'dogmatic atheist'." David F. Smith, 'Pirie, Norman Wingate [Bill] (1907–1997)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004; online edition, October 2005 (accessed May 2, 2008).
- Editorial Staff (22 October 2012). "Q&A: Alice Roberts". Newhumanist. Retrieved 20 August 2020.
I’m a confirmed atheist. Although, being a scientist, I have to keep an open mind. The evidence presented to me so far indicates a lack of deity. But if I ever meet one, I’m prepared to admit I was wrong.
- Adam Rutherford (3 December 2009). "Science, atheism and ironed trousers". The guardian. Retrieved 20 August 2020.
- Nadrian C. Seeman (2014). "The Crystallographic Roots of DNA Nanotechnology". Amercrystalassn.org. Retrieved 20 August 2020.
At about the time I got to high school, I lost whatever faith I might have had, and I've been an atheist ever since.
- "Oliver Smithies Interview: Session 1" (PDF). UCLA Oral History of Human Genetics. October 27, 2005. Archived from the original (PDF) on January 13, 2017. Retrieved January 14, 2017.
But that tells you about my religious affiliation, which is not very strong, and I must say I’m not even an agnostic. I’m just an atheist in real life.
- "Dr Spitzer has said repeatedly that as an "atheist Jew" his only interest in the issue is scientific truth, adding that an orthodoxy which forbids acknowledgement of the possibility of change is as flawed as that which labels homosexuality an act of will and morally wrong." Charles Laurence, 'Going straight', Sunday Telegraph, October 12, 2003, Pg. 19.
- Peter G. Ayres (2012). "Shaping Ecology: The Life of Arthur Tansley". Wiley-Blackwell. p. 139. ISBN 978-0470671542.
They became correspondents and, surprisingly since Tansley was an avowed atheist, friends.
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Despite his strict upbringing in the Orthodox Church, Vavilov had been an atheist from an early age. If he worshipped anything, it was science.
- Steve Kroft asked Venter on CBS Sixty Minutes, 21 November 2010: "Do you believe in God?" Venter replied, "No. The universe is far more wonderful."
- "A firm atheist, he was interested in, though unconvinced by, the paranormal, and also did research on hypnosis." Ray Cooper, 'Walter, (William) Grey (1910–1977)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edition, May 2007 (accessed May 2, 2008).
- Buckley, Kerry W. Mechanical Man: John Broadus Watson and the Beginnings of Behaviorism. Guilford Press, 1989.
- Gregory A. Kimble, Michael Wertheimer, Charlotte White. Portraits of Pioneers in Psychology. Psychology Press, 2013, p. 175. "Watson's outspoken atheism repelled many in Greensville."
- Michael Martin. The Cambridge Companion to Atheism. Cambridge University Press, 2006, p. 310. "Among celebrity atheists with much biographical data, we find leading psychologists and psychoanalysts. We could provide a long list, including (...) John B. Watson (...)"
- David Klinghoffer. "Darwin Would Put God Out of Business". Beliefnet, Inc. Retrieved 21 May 2013.
The author is Emile Zuckerkandl of Stanford University. Prof. Zuckerkandl ferociously attacks ID and any belief in a designer, God, or other "superghost".
- "An Interview With Isaac Asimov On Science And The Bible". Spring. 1982. Retrieved 23 August 2020.
I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it. I've been an atheist for years and years, but somehow I felt it was intellectually unrespectable to say one was an atheist, because it assumed knowledge that one didn't have. Somehow it was better to say one was a humanist or an agnostic. I finally decided that I'm a creature of emotion as well as of reason. Emotionally I am an atheist. I don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't exist, but I so strongly suspect he doesn't that I don't want to waste my time.
- Stanley Asimov (2008). Yours, Isaac Asimov: A Lifetime of Letters. ISBN 978-0385476249.
My estimate is that Isaac received about 100,000 letters in his professional career. And with the compulsiveness that has to be a character trait of a writer of almost 500 books, he answered 90 percent of them. He answered more than half with postcards and didn't make carbons of them. But with the 100,000 letters he received, there are carbons of about 45,000 that he wrote.
- "Suchet traces Russian Jewish roots". Daily Express. 8 September 2008. Retrieved 20 August 2020.
Suchet's father Jack, an atheist and eminent surgeon, emigrated from South Africa to England in the 1930s and never spoke about his family's past.
- Dawood Mamoon. "Professor Lewis Wolpert CBE FRS". Humanism.org. Retrieved 20 August 2020.
“I gave it all up around 16 and have been an atheist ever since.”
- "What the Fossils Say (with Dr. Donald Prothero)". Blogtalkradio. Retrieved 20 August 2020.
- Tom Heneghan (20 January 2007). "Creation vs. Darwin takes Muslim twist in Turkey". Reuters. Retrieved 20 August 2020.
- Lynn Margulis; Dorion Sagan (2000). What Is Life?. University of California Press. p. 170. ISBN 978-0-520-22021-8.
Both the French paleontologist-priest Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and the Russian atheist Vladimir Vernadsky agreed that Earth is developing a global mind.
- Kristi Coale (25 July 1997). "Seeding Intelligence". Wired Magazine. Retrieved 2 September 2020.
I've been an atheist - I had found it difficult to have religious beliefs and scientific ones," Brooks explained. "But I've accepted that I have a duality - there's a human way of interacting with people but also a mechanistic explanation of what people are and how they work.
- Susan Elizabeth Hough (2007). Richter's Scale: Measure of an Earthquake, Measure of a Man. Princeton U Press. p. 152.
The fact that Richter was devout only about his atheism...
- Herbert Kroemer. "Herbert Kroemer – Science Video Interview". Retrieved 2 September 2020.
Interviewer: You have no belief in a afterlife? Kroemer: That's correct. Interviewer: ...You don't see the evidence of a designer?" Kroemer: No, I don't. Interviewer: Could you say more about it? Kroemer: I think it's just wishful thinking.
- Joseph Mazzini Wheeler (1889). A biographical dictionary of freethinkers of all ages and nations. Progressive publishing company. p. 232. Retrieved 2 September 2020.
Montgolfier (Michel Joseph), aeronaut. b. Aug. 1740. He was the first to ascend in an air balloon, 5 June 1783. A friend of Delambre and La Lalande, he was on the testimony of this last an atheist. Died 26 June 1810.
- Warren Allen Smith (2000). Who's who in hell: a handbook and international directory for humanists, freethinkers, naturalists, rationalists, and non-theists. Barricade Books. p. 762. ISBN 978-1-56980-158-1.
Also that year, a Montgolfier balloon sailed over Paris in the first manned free balloon flight. Montgolfier served the Revolution with zeal and was much honored. Lalande, who knew him well, wrote that Montgolfier was an atheist.
- Alok Jha (6 January 2013). "Dan Shechtman: Linus Pauling said I was talking nonsense". Guardian News and Media. Retrieved 20 August 2020.
Do you believe in a god? No.
- Willem B. Drees (1990). Beyond the Big Bang: Quantum Cosmologies and God. Open Court Publishing. p. 22. ISBN 9780812691184. Retrieved 20 August 2020.
- Hannes Alfvén Birth Centennial. 30 May 2008. Retrieved 20 August 2020.
"Sometime after this, Hannes Alfvén was brought to the presence of Prime Minister Ben-Gurion. The latter was curious about this young Swedish scientist who was being much talked about. After a good chat, Ben Gurion came right to the point: "Do you believe in God?" Now, Hannes Alfvén was not quite prepared for this. So he considered his answer for a few brief seconds. But Ben-Gurion took his silence to be a "No." So he said: "Better scientist than you believes in God." As told by Hannes Alfvén to Asoka Mendis
- Amory Lovins (18 March 2011). "Nuclear After Japan: Amory Lovins". Retrieved 20 August 2020.
Nuclear power is uniquely unforgiving: as Swedish Nobel physicist Hannes Alfvén said, "No acts of God can be permitted.
- Helge Kragh (2004). Matter and Spirit in the Universe: Scientific and Religious Preludes to Modern Cosmology. Imperial College Press. p. 252. ISBN 978-1860944857.
Alfven dismissed in his address religion as a "myth," and passionately criticized the big-bang theory for being dogmatic and violating basic standards of science, to be no less mythical than religion.
- B. E. Chertok (2005). Rockets and people. Washington, D.C.: NASA.
I have always considered myself a diehard atheist and materialist...
- Paul Kurtz (30 October 1997). "Is Secular Humanism a Religion?". Retrieved 20 August 2020.
Paul MacCready, the inventor, defines it thus: "A secular humanist does not believe in God, and doesn't steal.
- Joseph McCabe (1950). A rationalist encyclopaedia: a book of reference on religion, philosophy, ethics, and science (2 ed.). Watts. p. 384. Retrieved 2 September 2020.
He was a member of the firm of Vickers' Sons and Maxim. Maxim was an aggressive Atheist (personal knowledge) and the compiler (with the present writer) of the collection of strong criticisms of religion...
- John Golley (2010). Jet: Frank Whittle and the Invention of the Jet Engine. Eloy Gutierrez. p. 34. ISBN 9781907472008.
Although he had occasionally cut Church Parade, he had once held very strong religious beliefs, but these had eroded to such an extent that he had come to regard himself as an atheist. "By degrees", he said "I was forced to the conclusion that my beliefs were inconsistent with scientific teaching. Once the seeds of doubt were sown the whole structure of my former religious beliefs rapidly collapsed, and I swung to the other extreme".
- Steven Wozniak. "Letters – General Questions Answered". woz.org. Archived from the original on 23 April 2016. Retrieved 26 September 2007.
... I am also atheist or agnostic (I don't even know the difference). I've never been to church and prefer to think for myself. I do believe that religions stand for good things, and that if you make irrational sacrifices for a religion, then everyone can tell that your religion is important to you and can trust that your most important inner faiths are strong.
- Jane Smiley (2010). The Man Who Invented the Computer: The Biography of John Atanasoff, Digital Pioneer. Random House Digital, Inc. ISBN 9780385527132. Retrieved 2 September 2020.
- Konrad Zuse (1993). The Computer, My Life. Springer. pp. 12–13. ISBN 978-3-540-56453-9. Retrieved 2 September 2020.
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- Michael Martin (2007). The Cambridge Companion to Atheism. Cambridge University Press. p. 310. ISBN 978-0-521-84270-9.
Among celebrity atheists with much biographical data, we find leading psychologists and psychoanalysts. We could provide a long list, including G. Stanley Hall, John B. Watson, Carl R. Rogers...
- Charles Ferster; B. F. Skinner (1957). Schedules of Reinforcement. Appleton-Century-Crofts. ISBN 9780989983952.
- James Bennet (June 2012). "What Man Can Make of Man". The Atlantic.
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- B. F. Skinner (1936). "The Verbal Summator and a Method for the Study of Latent Speech". Journal of Psychology. 2 (1): 71–107. doi:10.1080/00223980.1936.9917445.
- Nielsen, Stevan Lars & Ellis, Albert. (1994). "A discussion with Albert Ellis: Reason, emotion and religion", Journal of Psychology and Christianity, 13(4), Win 1994. pp. 327–341
- Michael Martin (2007). The Cambridge Companion to Atheism. Cambridge University Press. p. 310. ISBN 978-0-521-84270-9.
Among celebrity atheists with much biographical data, we find leading psychologists and psychoanalysts. We could provide a long list, including...Hans Jürgen Eysenck...
- Franz Samelson (2000). "Festinger, Leon". American National Biography. Retrieved 20 August 2020.
"Festinger, a professed atheist, was an original thinker and a restless, highly motivated individual with (in his words) "little tolerance for boredom".
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About the same time he stopped observing Jewish religious rituals and rejected a cause he had once embraced, Zionism. He "just didn't want to participate in any division of the human race, whether religious or political," he explained decades later (Wershba, p. 12), by which time he was a confirmed atheist.
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- Michael Martin (2007). The Cambridge Companion to Atheism. Cambridge University Press. p. 310. ISBN 978-0-521-84270-9.
Among celebrity atheists with much biographical data, we find leading psychologists and psychoanalysts. We could provide a long list, including...Melanie Klein...
- Michael Martin (2007). The Cambridge Companion to Atheism. Cambridge University Press. p. 310. ISBN 978-0-521-84270-9.
Among celebrity atheists with much biographical data, we find leading psychologists and psychoanalysts. We could provide a long list, including G. Stanley Hall, John B. Watson, Carl R. Rogers...Abraham Maslow...Maslow was a second-generation atheist, and his father was a militant freethinker.
- The Guardian Profile (6 November 1999). "Steven Pinker: the mind reader". London: The Guardian. Retrieved 2006-12-10.
I never outgrew my conversion to atheism at 13, but at various times was a serious cultural Jew.
- John Hyde Evans (2016). "What is a Human?: What the Answers Mean for Human Rights". Oxford University Press. p. 231. ISBN 978-0-19-060807-1.
The theory that religion is a force for peace, often heard among the religious right and its allies today, does not fit the facts of history
- Michael Martin (2007). The Cambridge Companion to Atheism. Cambridge University Press. p. 310. ISBN 978-0-521-84270-9.
Among celebrity atheists with much biographical data, we find leading psychologists and psychoanalysts. We could provide a long list, including G. Stanley Hall, John B. Watson, Carl R. Rogers...
- Hunter Crowther-Heyck (2005). Herbert A. Simon: The Bounds of Reason in Modern America. JHU Press. p. 22. ISBN 978-0-8018-8025-4.
His secular, scientific values came well before he was old enough to make such calculating career decisions. For example, while still in middle school, Simon wrote a letter to the editor of the Milwaukee Journal defending the civil liberties of atheists, and by high school he was "certain" that he was "religiously an atheist," a conviction that never wavered.
- Massimo Pigliucci (30 October 2006). "Enough blasting Dennett and Dawkins, all right?". Rationally Speaking. Retrieved 2 September 2020.
...I'm an atheist...
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Nelson's hatred of conventional structure made him difficult to educate. Bored and disgusted by school, he once plotted to stab his seventh-grade teacher with a sharpened screwdriver, but lost his nerve at the last minute and walked out of the classroom, never to return. On his long walk home, he came up with the four maxims that have guided his life: most people are fools, most authority is malignant, God does not exist, and everything is wrong.
- Murtaugh, Taysha (9 November 2010). "An unlikely atheist teaches others". Iowa State Daily. Retrieved 2 September 2020.
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- Noel G. Charlton (2008). Understanding Gregory Bateson: mind, beauty, and the sacred earth. SUNY Press. p. 29. ISBN 9780791474525.
This was to be the last large-scale work of lifelong atheist Bateson, seeking to understand the meaning of the sacred.
- Patrick Barkham (10 November 2008). "The power of speech". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 2 September 2020.
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I arrived at a complete atheism
- Hermione Lee (2015). Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life. The New York Review of Books. p. 488.
Dillwyn [Knox, son of an Evangelical bishop] was from his student years an unwavering atheist
- Mike Pitts (archaeologist) and Roberts, Mark (1998). Fairweather Eden: Life in Britain half a million years ago as revealed by the excavations at Boxgrove. London: Arrow. ISBN 978-0-09-964491-0.
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Like my parents, I have always been an atheist.
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