This is a partial list of notable secular humanists.
Mann, Nicholas. The Origins Of Humanism. In Renaissance Humanism, 1-20. Jill Kraye, 11th ed. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011).
This leads inevitably to my identifying philosophically as an agnostic and a humanist, and explains my temerity in sharing my views with you.
James Andrews (Professor of Mathematics, Florida State University)
Leonard Bernstein (who once accepted an American Humanist Association award)
The Putnam Collection Pevsner, with its handsome black granite pedestal designed by the sculptor, serves additionally as a memorial to the Danish scientist and humanist Niels Bohr (1885–1962), who had longstanding personal and professional ties with colleagues in the Department of Physics at Princeton. A quotation from Bohr's 1950 letter to the United Nations, enunciating the policy of Open World, flanks the paving stones at the base of the sculpture.
He continued, in high theological mode. Brahms was not about to put up with that sort of thing. He was a humanist and an agnostic. and his requiem was going to express that, Reinthaler or no.
As a scientist and a humanist, he epitomized the spirit of French intellectualism of the revolutionary era.
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His culture was not limited to biology: André Lwoff was a humanist (Lwoff 1981).
A brilliant nuclear physicist, with a comprehensive grasp of his field, Dr. Oppenheimer was also a cultivated scholar, a humanist, a linguist of eight tongues and a brooding searcher for ultimate spiritual values.
To me, the idea is, 'Why wouldn't I be a feminist?' Why wouldn't everybody be a feminist, humanist, environmentalist? It's so funny that environmentalism has such a stigma to it or that organic food is considered a fad. Actually, no, it's the way we have been eating for 99.99 percent of the time human beings have been on Earth.
Many prominent 20th-century thinkers were humanists, including Bertrand Russell,...
Today's most prominent and influential ethicist, Peter Singer, is a humanist.
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This was Tesla: a scientist, philosopher, humanist, and ethical man of the world in the truest sense.
Tesla, just thirty-one, was as much a true humanist as ever, seeking to ease the hard labor of the whole world with his spectacular induction motor and alternating current system.
Tesla, the unselfish humanist he was, would roll over in his grave.
Frank Jenkins, "Nikola Tesla: The Man, Engineer, Inventor, Humanist and Innovator," in Nikola Tesla: Life and Work of a Genius (Belgrade: Yugoslav Society for the Promotion of Scientific Knowledge, 1976), pp. 10–21.
As honorary president of the American Humanist Association since 2009, Vidal added an enthusiastic, progressive and dynamic voice to the AHA and the humanist movement.