jorge luis borges (18991986), penulis argentina
henry cadbury (18831974), ahli kitab suci dan quakerhenry cadbury, "my personal religion", republished on the quaker universalist fellowship website.
bart d. ehrman, ahli perjanjian baru dan "agnostik yang bahagia".
frederick james furnivall, (18251910), penyunting kedua oxford english dictionary.
a.j. jacobs, (lahir 1968), pengarang amerika serikat.during an interview on his book the year of living biblically with george stroumboulopoulos on the cbc program 'the hour' jacobs states "i'm still an agnostic, i don't know whether there's a god."
h. l. mencken (18801956), jurnalis, satiris, kritikus sosial, dan pemikir bebas."
when asked what he would do if on his death he found himself facing the twelve apostles, the agnostic mencken answered, "i would simply say, 'gentlemen, i was mistaken.
'"" american experience; monkey trial; people &
events: the jazz age, pbs online, 1999-2001.
retrieved 28 july 2007.
charles templeton, (19152001) mantan evangelis, pengarang a farewell to god.cbc news reports that templeton "eventually abandoned the pulpit and became an agnostic." journalist, evangelist charles templeton dies
mark twain: novelis yang terkenal akan karyanya adventures of huckleberry finn dan the adventures of tom sawyer."
in one of our walks about hartford, when he was in the first fine flush of his agnosticism, he declared that christianity had done nothing to improve morals and conditions..." william dean howells, my mark twain ."william dean howells and mark twain had much in common.
they were agnostic but compassionate of the plight of man in an indifferent world..." darrel abel (2002), classic authors of the gilded age, iuniverse, isbn 0-595-23497-6 twain has also been identified a deist."at the most, mark twain was a mild agnostic, usually he seems to have been an amused deist.
yet, at this late date his own daughter has refused to allow his comments on religion to be published."
kenneth rexroth, "humor in a tough age;" the nation, march 7, 1959.
ibn warraq, dikenal akan kritiknya terhadap islam."warraq, 60, describes himself now as an agnostic..." dissident voices, world magazine, june 16, 2007, vol. 22, no. 22.
robert anton wilson.
(19322007), pengarang.wilson explains that he is agnostic about everything in the preface to his book cosmic trigger.
david yallop, pengarang britania raya.the herald, "why did this "saint" fail to act on sinners within his flock?", anne simpson, may 26, 2007
warren buffett (lahir 1930), investor amerika serikatfaces of the new atheism: the scribe, by nicholas thompson, wired magazine, issue 14.11, november 2006 (diakses 30 november 2006).
aelke mariska, aktris indonesia
arina ephipania, vokalis grup musik mocca halaman facebook arina ephipania, diakses pada 8 februari 2011.
david bazan (lahir 1976): penyanyi, penulis lagu, musisi as
tom bergeron (lahir 1955): terkenal sebagai pembawa acara america's funniest home videos, hollywood squares and dancing with the stars.
interview with penn jillette in which he mentions his agnosticism.
gael garca bernal (lahir 1978-) aktor dan sutradara meksiko interview: padre, padre: mexico's native son gael garcia bernal stars in the controversial "the crime of father amaro"
rose byrne (1979): aktris australia"actress rose byrne on knowing religion &
the end of the world" in bbook.com: "yeah, i'd say i'm agnostic".
zac efron (lahir 1987-) aktor, bintang film seperti high school musical dan 17 again.
zac efron &
nikki blonsky's secret off screen romance?
by tina sims, the national ledger, august 1, 2007 (retrieved 25 march 2008)"i was raised agnostic, so we never practiced religion..." "zac efron - the new american hearthrob", strauss, neil rolling stone, august 23, 2007, hal. 43.
carrie fisher, aktris, novelis as.
emilia fox (lahir 1974): aktris inggrisin response to the question "do you believe in god?", fox said "i would love to, but i wonder sometimes what he believes in.
religion seems to have been created by man to help and guide humankind.
i've no idea, really."
matt groening, (lahir 1954-), pembuat serial televisi the simpsons, futurama, dan komik life in hell.see "sidelines" section of free inquiry magazine, volume 19, number 3, which references a quote from new york times magazine, 12-27-98.
john humphrys (lahir 1943): presenter televisi dan radio britania raya yang menjadi pembawa acara program yang mewawancarai pemuka-pemuka agama, humphrys in search of god."he [humphrys] went looking for god and ended up an angry agnostic  unable to believe but enraged by the arrogance of militant atheists."
in god we doubt, john humphrys the sunday times, september 2, 2007 (diakses 1 april 2008)
larry king (lahir 1933-), pembawa acara larry king live."when we got married, i said, 'look, since i'm agnostic, i have no right to tell you not to teach them what you believe.
but give them an opening.'
so if they ever ask me, i'd tell them the same thing i'm telling you: 'i don't buy that god, i don't know if there's an afterlife.'
annie lennox (lahir 1954), artis skotlandia
janez lapajne (lahir 1967-), sutradara slovenia.
emcee lynx (lahir 1980-), musisi hip hop yang menyatakan dirinya sebagai panteis, agnostik, atau ateis."
the closest word ive found to describe [my] belief system is pantheism, but i could also call myself an agnostic (because i dont claim to know if my own conception of divinity is ultimately true) or an atheist (because i believe that religions based around personified deities are definitely not true)."  the universe according to lynx (june 30, 2007), soundtrack for insurrection, circlealpha.com. retrieved october 21, 2007.
bill maher (lahir 1956), pelawan dan komentator politik as.maher said "i'm not convinced that god exists.
but i do allow the possibility.
i'm not an atheist.
my view on spirituality is i don't know.
i never will as long as i'm alive.
so why waste time dwelling on something i can never know?"
see transcript from larry king live - august 11, 2005.
dave matthews (lahir 1967-), musisi dan aktor as."'it would be safe to say that i'm agnostic,' matthews says.
'however, i do feel as though we owe a faith to the world and to ourselves.
we owe a grace and gratitude to things that have brought us here.
but i think it's very ignorant to say, 'well, for everything, god has a plan.' that's like an excuse.
... maybe the real faithful act is to commit to something, to take action, as opposed to saying, 'well, everything is in the hand of god.'" see boston globe article 'dave matthews gets serious - and playful' by steve morse (march 4, 2001)
conor oberst (lahir 1980-), penulis lagu dan penyanyi as.oberst said: "if im forced to categorize myself i guess id say i was an agnostic."
conor oberst and bright eyes: bright ideas, by a. d. amorosi, harp magazine, may 2007.
(retrieved 15 october 2007)
neil peart (lahir 1952-), pemain drum dan penulis lirik grup musik rock kanada, rush."i'm a linear thinking agnostic, but not an atheist folks."
sean penn (lahir 1960-), aktor as.
brad pitt (lahir 1963-), aktor amerika serikat."bild: do you believe in god?
brad pitt (smiling): 'no, no, no!' bild: is your soul spiritual?
brad pitt: 'no, no, no! im probably 20 per cent atheist and 80 per cent agnostic.
i dont think anyone really knows.
you'll either find out or not when you get there, until then there's no point thinking about it.'" brad pitt interview: "with six kids each morning it is about surviving!" by norbert krzdrfer, bild.com, 23 july 2009
andy rooney, (lahir 1919-)rooney wrote: "i call myself an agnostic, not an atheist, because in one sense atheists are like christians or muslims.
theyre sure of themselves.
a christian says with certainty, there is a god; an atheist says with certainty, there is no god.
neither knows" sincerely, andy rooney (2001), public affairs isbn 1-58648-045-6rooney said: "why am i an atheist?
i ask you: why is anybody not an atheist?
everyone starts out being an atheist.
no one is born with belief in anything.
infants are atheists until they are indoctrinated.
i resent anyone pushing their religion on me. i don't push my atheism on anybody else.
live and let live.
not many people practice that when it comes to religion."
marian christy, "conversations: we make our own destiny", boston globe, 30 may 1982 (from newsbank).rooney said: "i am an atheist... i don't understand religion at all.
i'm sure i'll offend a lot of people by saying this, but i think it's all nonsense."
from a speech at tufts university, 18 november 2004.
adrienne shelly (19662006), aktor dan sutradara as.adrienne shelly said: "i'm an optimistic agnostic.
i'd like to believe." rhys, tim (august 1996), suddenly adrienne shelly, moviemaker magazine.
diakses pada 12 februari 2007.
sting (1951): musisi inggris."i am an agnostic and i was interested in reading the pre-christian idea that winter is more about regeneration than salvation.
i stayed away from that triumphal, 'god is in his heaven, isn't everything wonderful?' kind of thing."
matt stone (lahir 1971-), salah satu pencipta kartun south park.stone said "...i'm jewish simply because... my mom is jewish... but... i grew up completely secular and completely agnostic... i am the worst jew in the world.
i know nothing about the religion.
i'm completely agnostic (my poor mother)."
'south park' creator matt stone on fighting terrorism on npr's program fresh air, 14 october 2004, (quote begins at 15:05, ends at 16:00)when asked if there was a god, stone answered "no." is there a god?, by stephen thompson, the onion a.v.
club, october 9, 2002
ralph vaughan williams (18721958): komponis britania."
here we have a man who, while at cambridge, was 'a most determined atheist'--those were the words of his fellow-undergraduate bertrand russell--and who was dismissed at the age of 25 from his post as organist in a church at south lambeth because he refused to take communion.
later, according to his widow, he 'drifted into a cheerful agnosticism'." the unknown vaughan williams, michael kennedy, proceedings of the royal musical association, vol. 99.
(19721973), hal. 31-41.
fred edwords (1948) aktivis humanis, saat ini menjadi kepala united coalition of reason."
frederick edwords, executive director of the american humanist association, who labels himself an agnostic..." atheism 101, by william b. lindley, truth seeker volume 121 (1994) no. 2, (diakses 14 april 2008)
karl r. popper, filsuf ilmu pengetahuan."referring to himself as an agnostic and an advocate of critical realism, popper gained an early reputation as the chief exponent of the principle of falsification rather than verification."
karl popper: philosopher of critical realism, by joe barnhart, the humanist magazine, julyaugust 1996.
(diakses 13 october 2006)
protagoras, (meninggal 420 sm), sofis dan humanis yunani, yang menulis bahwa keberadaan tuhan tidak dapat diketahui.only fragments of protagoras' treatise on the gods survive, but it opens with the sentence: "concerning the gods, i have no means of knowing whether they exist or not or of what sort they may be.
many things prevent knowledge including the obscurity of the subject and the brevity of human life."
bertrand russell, (18721970), filsuf dan matematikawan inggris.russell said: "as a philosopher, if i were speaking to a purely philosophic audience i should say that i ought to describe myself as an agnostic, because i do not think that there is a conclusive argument by which one prove that there is not a god. on the other hand, if i am to convey the right impression to the ordinary man in the street i think i ought to say that i am an atheist...
none of us would seriously consider the possibility that all the gods of homer really exist, and yet if you were to set to work to give a logical demonstration that zeus, hera, poseidon, and the rest of them did not exist you would find it an awful job. you could not get such proof.
therefore, in regard to the olympic gods, speaking to a purely philosophical audience, i would say that i am an agnostic.
but speaking popularly, i think that all of us would say in regard to those gods that we were atheists.
in regard to the christian god, i should, i think, take exactly the same line."
am i an agnostic or an atheist?, from last philosophical testament 19431968, (1997) routledge isbn 0-415-09409-7.
russell was chosen by look magazine to speak for agnostics in their well-known series explaining the religions of the u.s., and authored the essay "what is an agnostic?" which appeared november 3, 1953 in that magazine.
michael schmidt-salomon (1967): filsuf jerman, pengarang dan mantan penyunting miz (contemporary materials and information: political magazine for atheists and the irreligious).miz title in german: materialien und informationen zur zeit (miz) (untertitel: politisches magazin fr konfessionslose und atheistinnen)"like many other so-called "atheists" i am also not a pure atheist, but actually an agnostic..."
life without god: a decision for the people (automatic google translation of the original, hosted at schmidt-salomon's website), by michael schmidt-salomon 19 november 1996, first published in: education and criticism: journal of humanistic philosophy and free thinking january 1997 (diakses 1 april 2008)
anthony kenny (1931), kepala royal institute of philosophy.
james hall (1933), professor emeritus di universitas richmond.
politik dan hukum
clement attlee (18831967) politikus dan perdana menteri britania raya dari tahun 1945 hingga 1951.jerry h. brookshire: clement attlee.
manchester university press, 1995. hal. 10; 15; 35.
michelle bachelet (lahir 1951) politikus dan presiden chile dari tahun 2006 hingga 2010.bachelet said "i am a woman, socialist, separated and agnostic."
see newsweek article an unlikely pioneer.
helen clark (lahir 1950) politikus dan perdana menteri selandia baru dari tahun 1999 hingga 2008.
do you believe in him now, helen?
john key (lahir 1961) politikus dan perdana menteri selandia baru semenjak 2008.
wim kok (lahir 1938) politikus dan perdana menteri belanda dari tahun 1994 hingga 2002.
holland: tolerance fuels social experiment the dutch way - cover story - statistical data included
clarence darrow (18571938), pengacara as yang melindungi hak john t. scopes untuk mengajarkan teori evolusi darwin dalam kasus tennessee "monkey trial".darrow wrote "i am an agnostic as to the question of god." see why i am an agnostic.
willem drees (18861988) politikus dan perdana menteri belanda dari tahun 1973 hingga 1977.
agnosticisme of athesme
heinz fischer (lahir 1938) politikus dan presiden austria semenjak tahun 2004.
wiener zeitung, published july 8, 2004 (german).
"the agnostic fischer is married for 35 years with margit."
(translation by promt online translator).
carlos gaviria daz (lahir 1937) politikus kolombia.
the scream is not a vehicle of ideas (in spanish.
see also: english translation by promt online translator.
diakses 13 october 2006.)
bob hawke (lahir 1929) perdana menteri australia dari tahun 1983 hingga 1991.blanche d'alpuget, robert j. hawke, 87
robert g. ingersoll (18331899), pemimpin politik dan orator as.ingersoll said that "it seems to me that the man who knows the limitations of the mind, who gives the proper value to human testimony, is necessarily an agnostic."
why am i agnostic?, robert green ingersoll, 1889.
see also ingersoll's complete works, which includes many speeches and writings on religion and agnosticism.
ivo josipovi (lahir 1957) politikus, komponis, dan presiden kroasia dari tahun 2010 .josipovi said "yes, it is true, i am declared agnostic."
see slobodna dalmacija article in croatian language.
esther ouwehand (lahir 1976) politikus belanda.
bruno kreisky (19111990) kanselir federal austria dari tahun 1970 hingga 1983.rolf steininger, gnther bischof, michael gehler: austria in the twentieth century.
transaction publishers, new brunswick, 2002; hal. 270
ricardo lagos (lahir 1938) agnostik pertama yang menjadi presiden chile.
chile moves on, mark falcoff, american enterprise institute for public policy research, april 1, 2000.
maritte hamer (lahir 1958) politikus belanda.
boris van der ham (lahir 1973) politikus belanda.
jan marijnissen (lahir 1952) politikus belanda.
george lincoln rockwell (19181967), pendiri partai nazi amerika.rockwell wrote in his autobiography "i am an agnostic, which means that to all proposals and explanations of the mysteries of life and eternity, i say, 'i do not know and i don't believe you or any other human does either.'"
this time the world, chapter 3, george lincoln rockwell, isbn 1-59364-014-5
gerdi verbeet (lahir 1951) politikus dan kepala dewan perwakilan belanda semenjak tahun 2006.
gough whitlam (lahir 1916) perdana menteri australia, 19721975.
joop den uyl (19191987) politikus dan perdana menteri belanda dari tahun 1973 hingga 1977.
jos luis rodrguez zapatero (lahir 1960), perdana menteri spanyol."the country's left-leaning prime minister, a self-declared agnostic, became a bte noire of the catholic church during his first term in office by legalising same-sex marriage, introducing fast-track divorce and allowing embryonic stem-cell research."
gerrit zalm (lahir 1952) politikus dan wakil perdana menteri belanda dari tahun 2003 hingga 2007.
jawaharlal nehru (18891964) pejuang kemerdekaan dan perdana menteri pertama india dari tahun 1947 hingga 1964.
siddaramaiah (lahir 1948) mantan wakil menteri kepala karnatakaflashnewstoday.com/.../siddaramiah-claims-cm-suffering-from-political-depression/
ilmu pengetahuan dan teknologi
sir david attenborough (1926-) - presenter sejarah alam dan antropolog inggris.
interview with simon mayo, bbc radio five live, 2 december 2005.
francis crick (19162004), salah satu penemu struktur dna.francis crick, what mad pursuit: a personal view of scientific discovery, basic books reprint edition, 1990, isbn 0-465-09138-5, hal. 145.
marie curie (18671934): ahli fisika dan kimia polandia-perancis, perintis dalam bidang radiologi.
charles darwin, (18091882), pengagas teori evolusi.darwin wrote: "my judgment often fluctuates...
in my most extreme fluctuations i have never been an atheist in the sense of denying the existence of a god. i think that generally (and more and more as i grow older), but not always, that an agnostic would be the more correct description of my state of mind."
the life and letters of charles darwin, ch. viii, hal. 274. new york, d. appleton &
see charles darwin's views on religion
mile durkheim (18581917), sosiolog perancis.on durkheim, larry r. ridener, referencing a book by lewis a. coser, wrote: "shortly after his traditional jewish confirmation at the age of thirteen, durkheim, under the influence of a catholic woman teacher, had a shortlived mystical experience that led to an interest in catholicism.
but soon afterwards he turned away from all religious involvement, though emphatically not from interest in religious phenomena, and became an agnostic."
see ridener's page on famous dead sociologists.
see also coser's book: masters of sociological thought: ideas in historical and social context, 2nd ed., fort worth: harcourt brace jovanovich, inc., 1977: 143-144
albert einstein (18791955), fisikawan kelahiran jerman yang dikenal akan teori relativitas dan rumus ."my position concerning god is that of an agnostic."
albert einstein in a letter to m. berkowitz, october 25, 1950; einstein archive 59-215; from alice calaprice, ed., the expanded quotable einstein, princeton university press, 2000, hal. 216.
as quoted at stephenjaygould.org (diakses 20 juni 2007)
milton friedman, (19122006), ekonom as yang meraih hadiah nobel dalam bidang ekonomi.in correspondence with conservative christian commentator john lofton, milton friedman wrote: "i am an agnostic.
i do not believe in god, but i am not an atheist, because i believe the statement, there is a god does not admit of being either confirmed or rejected."
an exchange: my correspondence with milton friedman about god, economics, evolution and "values", by john lofton, the american view, octoberdecember 2006, (diakses 12 januari 2007)
stephen jay gould (19412002), paleontolog, biolog evolusioner, dan sejarawan ilmu pengetahuan as."...i certainly felt bemused by the anomaly of my role as a jewish agnostic, trying to reassure a group of catholic priests that evolution remained both true and entirely consistent with religious belief."
nonoverlapping magisteria, by stephen jay gould, natural history 106 (march 1997): 16-22; reprinted from leonardo's mountain of clams and the diet of worms, new york: harmony books, 1998, hal. 269-283.
thomas henry huxley, (18251895), biolog inggris dan pencetus istilah "agnostisisme"."every variety of philosophical and theological opinion was represented there, and expressed itself with entire openness; most of my colleagues were ists of one sort or another; and, however kind and friendly they might be, i, the man without a rag of a label to cover himself with, could not fail to have some of the uneasy feelings which must have beset the historical fox when, after leaving the trap in which his tail remained, he presented himself to his normally elongated companions.
so i took thought, and invented what i conceived to be the appropriate title of agnostic.'" part 2 - agnosticism, by t.h. huxley, from christianity and agnosticism: a controversy, new york: d. appleton and company, 1889.
hosted at the secular web. (diakses 5 april 2008)
ludwig von mises, (18811973) ekonom dan filsuf austria.erik ritter von kuehnelt-leddihn: the cultural background of ludwig von mises
sherwin b. nuland (lahir 1930), ahli bedah as dan pengarang how we die.
paul nurse (lahir 1949), penerima nobel dalam bidang fisiologi atau kedokteran pada tahun 2001."i gradually slipped away from religion over several years and became an atheist or to be more philosophically correct, a sceptical agnostic."
nurse's autobiography at nobelprize.org
george olah (lahir 1927), peraih nobel dalam bidang kimia pada tahun 1994, penemu superasam,"today, i consider myself, in thomas huxley's terms, an agnostic.
i dont know whether there is a god or creator, or whatever we may call a higher intelligence or being.
i dont know whether there is an ultimate reason for our being or whether there is anything beyond material phenomena. i may doubt these things as a scientist, as we cannot prove them scientifically, but at the same time we also cannot falsify (disprove) them.
for the same reasons, i cannot deny god with certainty, which would make me an atheist.
this is a conclusion reached by many scientists."
george olah, a life of magic chemistry
carl sagan, (19341996), astronom as."famed scientist carl sagan was also a renowned sceptic and agnostic who during his life refused to believe in anything unless there was physical evidence to support it." "unbeliever's quest" oleh jerry adler, dalam newsweek, 31 maret 1997.
excerpt diakses 2 november 2007.
peter schuster (1941), professor kimia teoretis di universitas wina.
steve wozniak (1950): salah satu pendiri apple computer dan penemu apple i dan apple ii.
pat tillman (1976  2004) - pemain sepak bola profesional dan veteran angkatan bersenjata as.krakauer, jon where men win glory, doubleday, 2009, p 116, 314.
"tillman was an agnostic, perhaps even an atheist".
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