Great scientists and society | Nature

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Access through your institution Buy or subscribe Robert White and colleagues point out that most scientific luminaries from centuries past were religious (_Nature_ 501, 33; 2013). This says


a great deal about the societies that these scientists lived and worked in, but little about the value or truth of a theistic world view, as can be seen by considering what else these great


names have in common: they were all men. This is a preview of subscription content, access via your institution ACCESS OPTIONS Access through your institution Subscribe to this journal


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AUTHOR INFORMATION AUTHORS AND AFFILIATIONS * University of Leicester, UK Simon Vaughan Authors * Simon Vaughan View author publications You can also search for this author inPubMed Google


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