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Shaheed Bhagat Singh    
One of the most well-known figures in the Indian independence movement


"Regarding the origin of God, my thought is that man created God in his imagination when he realized his weaknesses, limitations and shortcomings. In this way he got the courage to face all the trying circumstances and to meet all dangers that might occur in his life and also to restrain his outbursts in prosperity and affluence. God, with his whimsical laws and parental generosity was painted with variegated colours of imagination. He was used as a deterrent factor when his fury and his laws were repeatedly propagated so that man might not become a danger to society. He was the cry of the distressed soul for he was believed to stand as father and mother, sister and brother, brother and friend when in time of distress a man was left alone and helpless. He was Almighty and could do anything. The idea of God is helpful to a man in distress."





Khushwant Singh                                                   
Sikh Historian & Author -A History Of The Sikhs (most comprehensive two-volume book on Sikhs)
Ex-editor The Illustrated Weekly of India
Padma Bhushan, Padma Vibhushan, Punjab Rattan 

"I regard believers in god to be insecure and looking for crutches to help them walk. I regard them mentally retarted and making up myths about god being the creator, preserver, destroyer, almighty, just and merciful. They lack the courage to admit that they do not know where we have come from, why, and where we go when we die."

Amrita Sher-Gil                   
Eminent Painter

"I was expelled from school for being an atheist"











Harkishan Singh Surjeet        
Ex-General Secretary of the Communist Party of India
Ex-President and General Secretary of the All India Kisan Sabha
Founder - Desh Sewak magazine


Life long atheist









Simon Singh
Physicist 
Member of the Order of the British Empire
Author - Trick or Treatment? Alternative Medicine on Trial 


Humanist













Hardeep Singh Kohli
Radio and Television presenter


Secular Sikh






Famous Indian Atheists
"What the mysterious is I do not know. I do not call it God because God has come to mean much that I do not believe in. I find myself incapable of thinking of a deity or of any unknown supreme power in anthropomorphic terms, and the fact that many people think so is continually a source of surprise to me. Any idea of a personal God seems very odd to me."



International Irreligion



Richard Dawkins
Evolutionary Scientist 
He coined 'memes' as ideas that we pass on to other people. Religion is an example of a dangerous meme.
Works:  'The Selfish Gene', 'The God Delusion' 

Christopher Hitchens
Writer, Journalist, Public Speaker
World's best debater ever & a joy to watch on YouTube. 
Reported on Mother Teresa's unjust religious mission
Works: God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice

Sam Harris
Neuroscientist
He argues in favor of a science of morality. He's traveled to Asia, where he studied meditation with Hindu and Buddhist teachers.
Works: The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values

Dan Dennett
Philosopher, Writer and Cognitive Scientist
Works on philosophy of mind, philosophy of science and philosophy of biology.
Works: Breaking the Spell, Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life



V. Ramachandran
Neuroscientist, Padma Bhushan 
Time magazine's rated him in top 100 people 2011. His grandfather wrote the constitution of India. 
Works: Phantoms in the Brain


He performed experiments on split brained patients. The right brain says its an atheist & left religious. 


Temporal lobe seizure patient feeling presence of God within him.





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 Andrew Carnegie
industrialist, businessman and philanthropist
second richest man in history
he gave most of his steel and railroad fortune away to establish libraries, schools and universities all over America. 
He limited himself to an income of $50,000 per year, everything else went into good works.
He wrote many books on the subjects of wealth and its responsibilities, on social issues and on political philosophy. He self-identified as a positivist, and kept away from organized religion due to his distaste of sectarianism. Carnegie preferred naturalism and science, saying in his autobiography that, "not only had I got rid of the theology and the supernatural, but I had found the truth of evolution."



Sigmund Freud
psychiatrist 
founded the psychoanalytic school of psychology. Using his theories of the unconscious mind and defense mechanisms of repression, his psychoanalysis sought to cure sufferers of psychopathology through a dialogue between the patient and his psychoanalyst. 
Bertrand Russell
 philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, pacifist and social activist. 
Nobel Prize for literature in 1950.
"Am I an Atheist or an Agnostic?" 
Russell admitted that he could not prove the non-existence of God any more than he could prove the non-existence of the Homeric gods. But in his autobiography he stated, "At the age of eighteen, ...I read Mill's Autobiography, where I found a sentence to the effect that his father taught him the question "Who made me?" cannot be answered, since it immediately suggests the further question "Who made God?" This led me to abandon the "First Cause" argument, and to become an atheist."
Linus Pauling
Linus Carl Pauling, scientist
one of the greatest thinkers and visionaries of the last thousand years. 
One of only 4 individuals ever to have won solo Nobel Prizes in separate and unrelated fields - for chemistry in 1954, and the Nobel Peace Prize for his tireless campaign against atmospheric nuclear testing  
Paul Dirac
theoretical physicist 
contributed to the early development of quantum mechanics and quantum electrodynamics 
Nobel Prize in physics

Jacques Monod
French biologist 
Nobel Prize in Medicine
Subrahmanyan Chandresekhar
Nobel Prize in Physics

Alan Turing
father of computing
He became an atheist with a firm conviction that all phenomena must be materialistic in nature.

Francis Crick
discoverer of the structure of DNA

"Christianity may be okay between consenting adults in private, but should not be taught to young children."

Claude Shannon
electronic engineer and mathematician 
father of information theory
Richard Feynman
quantum physicist
Nobel Prize in 1965 for QED and became one of the best known scientists in the world
Noam Chomsky
one of the most notable American philosophers of any age. 
father of modern linguistics

James D. Watson
 Nobel Prize (medicine)
When asked by a student if he believed in God, Watson answered, "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."
Peter Higgs

Predicted Higgs particle 
as expected by the Large Hadron Collider at CERN 
expected to receive the Nobel Prize in physics within the year.



Warren Buffet
richest person in the world (2008) (Forbes)

promised to donate at least half of wealth to charity

Carl Sagan

astronomer, astrochemist
agnostic









Bruce Lee
.

Stephen Hawking, physicist

Steve Wozniak
Founder Apple Computers









Mark Zuckerberg
Founder Facebook
promised to donate at least half of wealth to charity




Ivan Pavlov
physiologist, psychologist and physician
Nobel Prize in medicine in 1904




Richard Branson
Founder Virgin Group




Bill Gates
Given over $28 billion to charity. 
Stated will give 95% of his wealth to charity

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