Famous Scientists?

Question

Why is it that one of the most famous scientists this world had were true believers in God? Like for instance Newton and Instien. And all this other scientists just works off of what they created.

Science without Religion is LAME, religion without science is BLIND.- Albert Instien

HappyKid, Personal God, no, God yes. Religion no, God yes.

PEOPLE I SAID GOD, NOT RELIGION!!!

Although I am a typical loner in daily life, my consciousness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice has preserved me from feeling isolated. The most beautiful and deepest experience a man can have is the sense of the mysterious. It is the underlying principle of religion as well as all serious endeavour in art and science. He who never had this experience seems to me, if not dead, then at least blind. To sense that behind anything that can be experienced there is something that our mind cannot grasp and whose beauty and sublimity reaches us only indirectly and as a feeble reflection, this is religiousness. In this sense I am religious. To me it suffices to wonder at these secrets and to attempt humbly to grasp with my mind a mere image of the lofty structure of all that is there.

Answer 1

The bigotry of the nonbeliever is for me nearly as funny as the bigotry of the believer.

— Albert Einstein

Answer 2

Why are some scientists are religious? For the usual reasons. Science and religion aren't necessarily exclusive of each other.

I'm a big fan of Einstein but even he was wrong sometimes. He said that God doesn't play dice with the universe. He didn't buy into quantum mechanics and was apparently ignorant of genetics. But he was the best at what he did.

Answer 3

Well, Einstein was more of an agnostic. He also said some nasty things about religion. And he worked off of what others had discovered before him. That's how science works.

"I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own -- a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotism."
-Albert Einstein

He was open to possibilities, but he didn't claim any faith.

Answer 4

Why do Christians try to claim Einstein? Based on his quotes he clearly was not a "true believer." I find it hard to argue with his own words. The Catholic Church arrested Galileo for observing that the universe did not revolve around the Earth. They apologized in 1992, about 330 years after his death. How long will it take all organized religions to admit that Dawin was right? Science is based on evidence that can be tested, religion is based on tall tales passed down through the ages. How do they fit together?

Answer 5

Einstein was at most a believer in Spinoza's god, that is, the concept that the natural laws of the universe are themselves worthy of awe.

And before the modern era, pre 1900's really, atheism wasn't really a social option. You could literally lose your livelihood if you didn't believe in a deity.

Oh, and what of all the Muslim scientists? Sure, they believed in Yahweh but they didn't believe in the Triune God that Christians do... and if it wasn't for the Muslim High Caliphate maintaining the knowledge and wisdom of the Library of Alexandria, we'd still be struggling out of the dark ages. Can you name any of them? Any of the scientists at ALL who contributed to Al-jebra (Algebra), Al-Chemy (alchemy, which grew into chemistry), or any of the other sciences that they preserved?

How about the Chinese scientists, many of whom contributed to things like gunpowder and explosives? Do you think they believed in Yahweh?

See, you have this biased view. You've only heard about the Christian scientists because -- gasp -- you grew up in a predominantly Christian culture. If you had grown up in China or Japan or Iran, you'd have learned a whole different set of 'famous scientists'.

Get a clue.

Answer 6

Science and religion, complement each other, not conflict with one another! Those who truly understand the beauty of either religion or science know that, and therefore it is often the brilliant religious people who make the biggest breakthroughs.......haha, i realize that none of that sounds very compelling, so here is a nice little tidbit just to add some quality to this posting:
There was a very famous medieval Rabbi, Moses Maimonides (a.k.a. the Rambam) who basically said that if science disproves our interpretation of religion, we must rework our interpretation of religion to fit it. You can, for example, blend evolution and Intelligent Design, if you are not to stubborn to make the effort. The two are not mutually exclusive, so maybe the world should stop pretending like they are.

Answer 7

" It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it."


Albert Einstein

Answer 8

it stems from a long-standing tradition of setting non-believers on fire. you should do a little more research on einstein though.

"However he makes it clear that he does not believe in a personal God..." wikipedia, on einstein
also..
"It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated"

oh and this info is outstanding:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religiosity_and_intelligence
here's a short excerpt:
According to one article in Scientific American, an American science-popularization magazine, 90% of the general population surveyed professed a distinct belief in a personal god and afterlife, while only 40% of the scientists with a BS surveyed did so, and only 10% of those considered "eminent."[

Answer 9

* Francis Crick (1916–2004): 1962-Nobel-laureate co-discoverer of the structure of DNA, who described himself as a skeptic and an agnostic with "a strong inclination towards atheism."[88]
* Marie Curie (1867–1934): Nobel Laureate in Physics (1903) and Chemistry (1911). First woman to be awarded a Nobel Prize, only person to win Nobel Prizes in two different scientific disciplines.[89]
* Richard Dawkins (1941—): British zoologist, biologist, creator of the concepts of the selfish gene and the meme; outspoken atheist and popularizer of science, author of The God Delusion and founder of the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science.[90]
* Richard Feynman (1918–1988): American 1965-Nobel-laureate theoretical physicist. [91]
* Sigmund Freud (1856–1939): Father of psychoanalysis.[92]
* Christer Fuglesang (1957—), Swedish astronaut and physicist, identified as an atheist in a Dagens Nyheter interview.[93]
* Vitaly Ginzburg (1916—): 2003 Nobel Laureate in Physics.[94]
* Harold Kroto (1939—): 1996 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry.[95]
* Richard Leakey (1944—): Kenyan paleontologist, archaeologist and conservationist.[96]
* Jonathan Miller (1934—): British physician, actor, theatre and opera director, and (latterly) television presenter. Wrote and presented the 2004 television series, Atheism: A Rough History of Disbelief, exploring the roots of his own atheism and investigating the history of atheism in the world.[97]
* Peter D. Mitchell (1920–1992): 1978-Nobel-laureate British biochemist. Atheist mother, and himself atheist from age 15.[98]
* Paul Nurse (1949—): 2001 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine.[99]
* Linus Pauling (1901–1994): Nobel Laureate in Chemistry (1954) and Peace (1962). Near-discoverer of the structure of DNA.[100]
* Steven Pinker (1954—): American psychologist.[101]
* Amartya Kumar Sen (1933—): 1998 Nobel Laureate in Economics.[102][103][104][105]
* Claude Shannon (1916–2001): American electrical engineer and mathematician, has been called "the father of information theory", and was the founder of practical digital circuit design theory. [106]
* James D. Watson (1928—), 1962-Nobel-laureate co-discover of the structure of DNA, identified as an atheist in a Newsweek commentary by his acquaintance, Rabbi Marc Gellman.[107]
* Steven Weinberg (1933—): 1979 Nobel Laureate in Physics.[108]


Hmm all atheists....

Answer 10

I have worked with many scientists, though most are atheists and detest religion some are like me and are a believer and believe that God could of used the big bang theory to create the universe.

Science and religion don't have to oppose each other.

Einstein also said,
"When the solution is simple, God is answering."

I believe this to be true

Answer 11

Oh boy. Einstein was not a "believer", far from it.

Next, you obviously haven't studied much of your scientific history if you are under the mistaken impression that all other scientific works are based on what they "created", I think you mean discovered, or at least I hope you do.

Science with religion ISN'T science, it's Science Fiction.