| I unfortunately or fortunately I can not bring myself to believe in the existence of a conscious self Omnipotence that controls my life and the life of humanity• The traditional religious strategies of grounding morality are blocked for Berlin | Robert Owen, the New Lanark industrialist, social reformer, and religious agnostic, urged factory managers to be more mindful of the men, women, and children they employed; advocated parliamentary regulation of the mills; argued for the organization of workers into unions; and had taken steps to build an American utopian Zion at New Harmony, Indiana• Although Wilczek grew up in the Roman Catholic faith, he now considers himself agnostic |
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| We can hardly wonder, in the circumstances, that agnostics such as Sir James Jeans and Marcel Boll, and even convinced believers like Guardini, have uttered expressions ol amazement tinged with heroic pessimism or triumphant detachment at the apparent insignificance of the phenomenon of Life in terms of the cosmos— a little mold on a grain of dust | n his religious beliefs: ANNO: "I don't belong to any kind of organized religion, so I guess I could be considered agnostic |
| Plancherel was a military man, a colonel in the Swiss army, and a devout Catholic; Polya did not like military ceremonies or activities, and he was an agnostic who objected to hierarchical religions• A Biographical Dictionary of Ancient, Medieval, and Modern Freethinkers | He was a confirmed agnostic, a doubter and seeker, never a soul at rest or at peace |
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| " William Dean Howells, My Mark Twain• I look at religion as doing the right thing | It is ridiculous to describe that Laozi had started the Dao religion |
433, relates how their marriage ceremony was moving "even for atheists like ourselves• Doctors and Discoveries: Lives That Created Today's Medicine.
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