Born on this date
Frank Lloyd Wright (1867), world famous architect
“I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.”
—"Truth Against the World: Frank Lloyd Wright speaks for an organic architecture," ed. Patrick J. Meehan (1987)
Francis Crick (1916), biologist, co-Nobel winner for the structure and replication scheme of DNA
“I realized early on that it is detailed scientific knowledge which makes certain religious beliefs untenable. A knowledge of the true age of the earth and of the fossil record makes it impossible for any balanced intellect to believe in the literal truth of every part of the Bible in the way that fundamentalists do. And if some of the Bible is manifestly wrong, why should any of the rest of it be accepted automatically?”
—Crick, "What Mad Pursuit: A Personal View of Scientific Discovery" (1988)
Tim Berners-Lee (1955), software engineer, created the first web server, browser and web page
“I rejected [Christianity] just after being ‘confirmed’ and told how essential it was to believe in all kinds of unbelievable things.”
—Berners-Lee, “WWW and UU and I" (1998)
Sara Paretsky (1947), author of crime fiction
“I’m at the atheist end of the agnostic spectrum.”
—Paretsky blog post, saraparetsky.com (Sept. 26, 2009)
“I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.”
—"Truth Against the World: Frank Lloyd Wright speaks for an organic architecture," ed. Patrick J. Meehan (1987)
Francis Crick (1916), biologist, co-Nobel winner for the structure and replication scheme of DNA
“I realized early on that it is detailed scientific knowledge which makes certain religious beliefs untenable. A knowledge of the true age of the earth and of the fossil record makes it impossible for any balanced intellect to believe in the literal truth of every part of the Bible in the way that fundamentalists do. And if some of the Bible is manifestly wrong, why should any of the rest of it be accepted automatically?”
—Crick, "What Mad Pursuit: A Personal View of Scientific Discovery" (1988)
Tim Berners-Lee (1955), software engineer, created the first web server, browser and web page
“I rejected [Christianity] just after being ‘confirmed’ and told how essential it was to believe in all kinds of unbelievable things.”
—Berners-Lee, “WWW and UU and I" (1998)
Sara Paretsky (1947), author of crime fiction
“I’m at the atheist end of the agnostic spectrum.”
—Paretsky blog post, saraparetsky.com (Sept. 26, 2009)
