11. Stephen Hawking
My guess is that by now even the little children know that Stephen Hawking is an atheist through and through. This British cosmologist and theoretical physicist is one of world’s biggest scientific minds alive and is currently Director of Research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology at the University of Cambridge. He’s not only an atheist. In fact, his lively work is going against most religious beliefs, and he’s trying to scientifically prove that the God doesn’t exist (not deliberately, of course). A part of his quote pretty much sums this up: “When people ask me if God created the universe, I tell them that the question itself makes no sense. Time didn’t exist before the big bang, so there is no time for God to make the universe in.”
