As I encountered and interacted with free thinkers and atheists amongst others, I found that a large percentage of them based their convictions on Science's inability to proove the existence of God.
Find here collated 10 of some of the most outstanding scientists of all times with varied, ground breaking and essential contributions to the field of science and the entire body of modern knowledge as we now have it and what they each had to say about God.

10. Blaise Pascal :
1623-1662 French mathematician &
physicist. Father of the mathematical
theory of probability and
combinatorial analysis and provided
the essential link between the
mechanics of fluids and the
mechanics of rigid bodies. He has these to say; "There is a God-shaped vacuum in every heart" " We know the truth not only through
our reason but also through our
heart. … For knowledge of first
principles, like space, time, motion,
number, is as solid as any derived
through reason, and it is on such
knowledge, coming from the heart
and instinct, that reason has to
depend and base all its argument. … It
is just as pointless and absurd for
reason to demand proof of first
principles from the heart before
agreeing to accept them as it would
be absurd for the heart to demand an
intuition of all the propositions
demonstrated by reason before
agreeing to accept them. Our inability
must therefore serve only to humble
reason, which would like to be the
judge of everything, but not to confute
our certainty. As if reason were the
only way we could learn! (Pensees , p
28-29)
For a religion to be true it must have
known our nature; it must have
known its greatness and smallness,
and the reason for both. What other
religion but Christianity has known
this? (Pensees , p 69)

A very small list of atheist scientists

Ernst Abbe (1840–1905): German physicist, optometrist, entrepreneur, and social reformer. Together with Otto Schott and Carl Zeiss, he laid the foundation of modern optics. Abbe developed numerous optical instruments. He was a co-owner of Carl Zeiss AG, a German manufacturer of research microscopes, astronomical telescopes, planetariums and other optical systems.[1]
Zhores Alferov (1930–): Soviet and Russian physicist and academic who contributed significantly to the creation of modern heterostructure physics and electronics. He is an inventor of the heterotransistor and the winner of 2000 Nobel Prize in Physics.[2][3]
Hannes Alfvén (1908–1995): Swedish electrical engineer and plasma physicist. He received the 1970 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). He is best known for describing the class of MHD waves now known as Alfvén waves.[4][5][6]
Jim Al-Khalili (1962–): Iraqi-born British theoretical physicist, author and science communicator. He is professor of Theoretical Physics and Chair in the Public Engagement in Science at the University of Surrey.[7]
Philip W. Anderson (1923-): American physicist. He was one of the recipients of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1977. Anderson has made contributions to the theories of localization, antiferromagnetism and high-temperature superconductivity.[8]
François Arago (1786–1853): French mathematician, physicist, astronomer and politician.[9]
Svante Arrhenius (1859–1927): Swedish physicist and chemist. He is considered to be one of the founders of physical chemistry. He received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1903.[10][11]
Emil Artin (1898–1962): Austrian-American mathematician of Armenian descent.
Peter Atkins (1940–): English chemist, Professor of chemistry at Lincoln College, Oxford in England.[12]
Julius Axelrod (1912–2004): American Nobel Prize winning biochemist, noted for his work on the release and reuptake of catecholamine neurotransmitters and major contributions to the understanding of the pineal gland and how it is regulated during the sleep-wake cycle.[13]
Sir Edward Battersby Bailey FRS (1881–1965): British geologist, director of the British Geological Survey.[14]
Sir Patrick Bateson FRS (1938–): English biologist and science writer, Emeritus Professor of ethology at Cambridge University and president of the Zoological Society of London.[15]
William Bateson (1861–1926): British geneticist, a Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge, where he eventually became Master. He was the first person to use the term genetics to describe the study of heredity and biological inheritance, and the chief populariser of the ideas of Gregor Mendel following their rediscovery.[16]
George Wells Beadle (1903–1989): American geneticist. Along with Edward Lawrie Tatum, he won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1958 for discovering the role of genes in regulating biochemical events within cells.[17][18]
John Stewart Bell (1928–1990): Irish physicist. Best known for his discovery of Bell's theorem.[19]
Charles H. Bennett (1943–): American physicist, information theorist and IBM Fellow at IBM Research. He is best known for his work in quantum cryptography, quantum teleportation and is one of the founding fathers of modern quantum information theory.[20]
John Desmond Bernal (1901–1971): British biophysicist. Best known for pioneering X-ray crystallography in molecular biology.[21]
Paul Bert (1833–1886): French zoologist, physiologist and politician. Known for his research on oxygen toxicity.[22]
Marcellin Berthelot (1827–1907): French chemist and politician noted for the Thomsen-Berthelot principle of thermochemistry. He synthesized many organic compounds from inorganic substances and disproved the theory of vitalism.[23][24]
Claude Louis Berthollet (1748–1822): French chemist.[25]
Hans Bethe (1906–2005): German-American nuclear physicist, and Nobel laureate in physics for his work on the theory of stellar nucleosynthesis.[26] A versatile theoretical physicist, Bethe also made important contributions to quantum electrodynamics, nuclear physics, solid-state physics and astrophysics. During World War II, he was head of the Theoretical Division at the secret Los Alamos laboratory which developed the first atomic bombs. There he played a key role in calculating the critical mass of the weapons, and did theoretical work on the implosion method used in both the Trinity test and the "Fat Man" weapon dropped on Nagasaki, Japan.[27]
Norman Bethune (1890–1939): Canadian physician and medical innovator.[28]
Patrick Blackett OM, CH, FRS (1897–1974): Nobel Prize winning English experimental physicist known for his work on cloud chambers, cosmic rays, and paleomagnetism.[29]
Susan Blackmore (1951–): English psychologist and memeticist, best known for her book The Meme Machine.[30]

9. Lord Kelvin
1824-1907 (William Thomson) British
physicist; helped lay the foundations
of thermodynamics.
First and second laws of
thermodynamics. Absolute temp
scale. Trans-Atlantic cable. Read him:
"I believe that the more thoroughly
science is studied, the further does it
take us from anything comparable to
atheism."
Do not be afraid to be free thinkers. If
you think strongly enough, you will be
forced by science to the belief in God.
8. C.F.Gauss
One of the greatest mathematicians of
all time. Contributed significantly to
pure mathematic and made practical
applications of importance for 20th-
century astronomy, geodesy, and
electromagnetism. He had these to say:
"There are problems to whose
solution I would attach an infinitely
greater importance than to those of
mathematics, for example touching
ethics, or our relation to God, or
concerning our destiny and our
future; but their solution lies wholly
beyond us and completely outside the
province of science."

7. Louis Pasteur (Dec. 27, 1822-Sept. 28,
1895) was a French chemist and
microbiologist. He is most famous for
inventing the process that keeps milk
from going sour, which is now known,
in his honor, as pasteurization. He
also performed experiments that
confirmed the germ theory of disease,
created the first rabies, anthrax and
chicken cholera vaccines, was a
founder of bacteriology and made
numerous discoveries in chemistry.
Pasteur described on a scientific basis
the process of fermentation, wine-
making, and the brewing of beer. "He
debunked the widely accepted myth
of spontaneous generation , thereby
setting the stage for modern biology
and biochemistry ."
Pasteur was also the Dean of the
faculty of sciences at Lille University.
He founded on June 4, 1887 the
Pasteur Institute , a French non-profit
private foundation dedicated to the
study of biology, a forefront of the
battle against infectious disease. He had these to say; "A bit of science distances one
from God, but much science nears
one to Him. The more I study nature, the more I
stand amazed at the work of the
Creator."

6. Robert Boyle
(1627 - 1691)
The Boyle's law describes the
inversely proportional relationship
between absolute pressure and
volume of a gas, that is, if the
temperature is constantly
maintained in a closed system.
In "The
Excellency of Theology, Compared
with Natural Philosophy" (1674,
written 1665), he noted, "The
vastness, beauty, orderliness of
heavenly bodies; the excellent
structure of animals and plants; and
other phenomena of nature justly
induce an intelligent, unprejudiced
observer to conclude a supreme,
powerful, just, and good author."
"The furnace of affliction refines us
from earthly drossiness, and softens
us for the impression of God’s own
stamp."
"The joys of heaven are like the
stars, which by reason of our
remoteness appear extremely little."

5.Nicholas Copernicus(1473-1543)
He theorized that the Sun was the
fixed point around which the
motions of the planets takes
place. The Earth rotates around its
axis once in a day and slow
alterations in the direction of this
axis cause the precession of the
equinoxes. Hear him as it relates to God;
“To know the mighty works of God,
to comprehend His wisdom and
majesty and power, to appreciate, in
degree, the wonderful working of His
laws, surely all this must be a pleasing
and acceptable mode of worship to
the Most High, to whom ignorance
cannot be more gratifying than
knowledge.” (Copernicus, as cited in
Neff 1952, 191-192; and in Hubbard
1905, v).
2. “Not the Grace received by Paul do I
desire,
Nor the good will with which Thou
forgavest Peter,
Only that which Thou didst grant the
thief on the cross,
That mercy I ask of Thee.”
(Copernicus, as cited in Trepatschko
1994, Vol. 44).
3. In his revolutionary work De
revolutionibus orbium caelestium (On
the Revolutions of the Celestial
Spheres, 1543), Copernicus wrote:
“For who, after applying himself to
things which he sees established in
the best order and directed by Divine
ruling, would not through diligent
contemplation of them and through a
certain habituation be awakened to
that which is best and would not
admire the Artificer of all things, in
Whom is all happiness and every
good? For the divine Psalmist surely
did not say gratuitously that he took
pleasure in the workings of God and
rejoiced in the works of His hands."

4. Sir Albert Einstein (14
March 1879 – 18 April
1955) was a German-born
theoretical physicist who
developed the general
theory of relativity , one of
the two pillars of modern
physics (alongside
quantum mechanics ).
While best known for his
mass–energy equivalence
formula E = mc2 (which
has been dubbed "the
world's most famous
equation", he received
the 1921 Nobel Prize in
Physics "for his services to
theoretical physics, and
especially for his discovery
of the law of the
photoelectric effect ". The
latter was pivotal in
establishing quantum
theory . Peep through these window of his opinions into his mind;
"In view of such harmony in the
cosmos which I, with my limited
human mind, am able to recognize,
there are yet people who say there is
no God. But what really makes me
angry is that they quote me for the
support of such views."
"I'm not an atheist and I don't think I
can call myself a pantheist. We are in
the position of a little child entering a
huge library filled with books in many
languages. The child knows someone
must have written those books. It
does not know how. It does not
understand the languages in which
they are written. The child dimly
suspects a mysterious order in the
arrangements of the books, but
doesn't know what it is. That, it seems
to me, is the attitude of even the most
intelligent human being toward
God."

3. Galileo Galilei (Italian
pronunciation: [ɡaliˈlɛːo
ɡaliˈlɛi] ; 15 February
1564 – 8 January 1642),
was an Italian physicist,
mathematician,
astronomer, and
philosopher who played a
major role in the Scientific
Revolution . His
achievements include
improvements to the
telescope and consequent
astronomical observations
and support for
Copernicanism. Galileo has
been called the "father of
modern observational
astronomy ", the "father
of modern physics ", the
"father of science", and
"the Father of Modern
Science".
His contributions to
observational astronomy
include the telescopic
confirmation of the phases
of Venus , the discovery of
the four largest satellites of
Jupiter (named the
Galilean moons in his
honour), and the
observation and analysis of
sunspots . Galileo also
worked in applied science
and technology, inventing
an improved military
compass and other
instruments. Read some of the things he wrote in relation to God.
"I render infinite thanks
to God, for being so kind as to make
me alone the first observer of
marvels kept hidden in obscurity
for all previous centuries.”
“…the Holy Scriptures cannot err
and the decrees therein contained
are absolutely true and inviolable. I
should have added that, though
scripture cannot err its expounders
and interpreters are liable to err in
many ways …when they base
themselves always on literal
meaning of the words."

2. Sir Isaac Newton
1642-1727
English mathematician & physicist,
one of the greatest scientists of all
time.
Laws of gravitation and motion,
developed calculus. Major
contributions to optics, physics, math
and astronomy. He are some of his quotes on God;
"The solar system itself could not have
been produced by blind chance or
fortuitous causes but only by a cause
very well skilled in mechanics and
geometry."
"There are more sure marks of
authenticity in the Bible than in any
profane history."
"No sciences are better attested to
than the science of the Bible." "This
most beautiful system of the sun,
planets, and comets, could only
proceed from the counsel and
dominion of an intelligent and
powerful Being.... This Being governs
all things, not as the soul of the world,
but as Lord over all; and on account
of his dominion he is wont to be
called Lord God." Isaac Newton;
Principles.
"It must be expressed in the very
form of sound words in which it was
delivered by the apostles. For men are
apt to run into partings about
deductions. All the old heresies lie in
deductions. The true faith was in the
Biblical texts."

1. Aristotle(384-322BC). His writings cover
many subjects, including
physics , metaphysics,
poetry , theater , music,
logic , rhetoric, linguistics,
politics , government ,
ethics, biology , and
zoology.
Aristotle believed that all movement
depends on there being a prime mover. For
Aristotle, movement meant more than
something travelling from A to B.
Movement also included change,
growth, melting, cooling, heating…etc.
Just like his predecessor Heraclitus,
Aristotle recognised that everything in
the world is in a state of flux.
Aristotle argued that behind every
movement there must be a chain of
events that brought about the
movement that we see taking place.
Aristotle argued that this chain of
events must lead back to something
which moves but is itself unmoved.
This is referred to as the Prime Mover.
In Aristotle’s view change is eternal.
There cannot have been a first
change, because something would
have to have happened just before
that change which set it off, and this
itself would have been a change, and
so on.
In his book Metaphysics (literally after
physics), Aristotle calls this source of
all movement the Prime Mover. The
Prime Mover to Aristotle is the first of
all substances, the necessary first
sources of movement which is itself
unmoved. It is a being with everlasting
life, and in Metaphysics Aristotle also
calls this being ‘God’.

traeces: 1. Aristotle(384-322BC). His writings cover
many subjects, including
physics , metaphysics,
poetry , theater , music,
logic , rhetoric, linguistics,
politics , government ,
ethics, biology , and
zoology.
Aristotle believed that all movement
depends on there being a prime mover. For
Aristotle, movement meant more than
something travelling from A to B.
Movement also included change,
growth, melting, cooling, heating…etc.
Just like his predecessor Heraclitus,
Aristotle recognised that everything in
the world is in a state of flux.
Aristotle argued that behind every
movement there must be a chain of
events that brought about the
movement that we see taking place.
Aristotle argued that this chain of
events must lead back to something
which moves but is itself unmoved.
This is referred to as the Prime Mover.
In Aristotle’s view change is eternal.
There cannot have been a first
change, because something would
have to have happened just before
that change which set it off, and this
itself would have been a change, and
so on.
In his book Metaphysics (literally after
physics), Aristotle calls this source of
all movement the Prime Mover. The
Prime Mover to Aristotle is the first of
all substances, the necessary first
sources of movement which is itself
unmoved. It is a being with everlasting
life, and in Metaphysics Aristotle also
calls this being ‘God’.

aristotle believed in God?that's a first.if you say zeus,i might be inclined to agree but am guessing your aim is to align aristotle's words with yahweh

Delafruita: aristotle believed in God?that's a first.if you say zeus,i might be inclined to agree but am guessing your aim is to align aristotle's words with yahweh

From reading Aristotle's writings as quoted, it is pretty obvious he like the people of Athens concerning whom paul the apostle wrote;


“It is plain to see that
you Athenians take your religion
seriously. When I arrived here the
other day, I was fascinated with all the
shrines I came across. And then I
found one inscribed, TO THE GOD
NOBODY KNOWS. I’m here to
introduce you to this God so you can
worship intelligently, know who you’re
dealing with." Acts 17:22-23(MSG)
It is safe to infer that he sure believed in God even though he did not know him.

My friend. Learn to edit the things you copy and paste.. dont make it so obvious.

Space them out and make them inviting to read. Use bold fonts for item numbers and italics for dates you wana reference, make paragraphs and break them down into sections.

Don't just copy and paste and think everyone wana read it.

Finally, on your topic. I'll like to see you write this up again with modern famous scientists. you wont go far

^ I have no need of concealing an obvious harmless truth. I actually read, copied and pasted.
As for making the write-up appealing to the eyes, I couldn't have done more than I did with the phone I was using.
Now talking about famous modern scientists, you should know that even among the league of Scientists I quoted, there were some who differed in opinion.
What's more? God does not actually rely on science or scientists to validate his existence. I only did the compilation to help some in your league who might not have condemned themselves to eternal damnation as yet to be proded to reevaluate their convictions and accept the mercy of God.
Thank you.

noted

As Area_boy has suggested, why don't you go ahead and provide a list with modern scientists?

@traeces,you seem to have some freemasons and rosicrucians on your list,Isaac Newton(AMORC),Albert Einstein(AMORC), Robert Boyle(Freemason)!!!

@traeces,wasn't it not Aristotle who taught Alexander the Great?Do you think that he taught Alex about the christian god?He taught Alex the A-Z of Hellenistic paganism!!!And by the way,the Unknown God is 'Amun',and not yahweh.Amun means 'the hidden one',and at that time,Greeks worshipped Egyptian Gods!!!