i would imagine agnostic would be most true scientists default given you can never know anything 100% but i doubt many go to church who are respected

More relevant to Christian fundamentalists ... there are even more scientists who believe in an impersonal god or some sort of pantheism than just the ones who disbelieve in any gods. But they often claim the deists and pantheists as believers -- as if those guys would not be rejected from membership in their own churches on account of believing the Wrong Things.

There’s always some more vocal than others, just like us. Stephen Hawking, Alfred Nobel, Sigmund Freud, Albert Einstein, Marie Curie and her husband, Neil Degrasse Tyson identifies as an agnostic. There is many more.. those are the ones I can think of right now.

I hope other folks have some names.. and maybe some quotes to back them up. But the question is like asking ‘which US presidents were Atheists?’ If you ‘admit’ such a thing, funding and support dries up… I suspect many were, but had they admitted it, they’d never have become president..

I believe there were threats against the life of Charles Darwin … Galileo was locked up by ‘the church.’ In the US, religious fanatics cut funding to science whenever possible, so if the scientist in charge had proclaimed their Atheism.. funding would likely be non existent ….unless their research had military applications..