Many years ago I entered a most rewarding search. My quest was  to answer the following question: Did the greatest minds of the past believe in God or did they gravitate toward agnosticism or atheism, as some atheists propagate. The search was long and arduous. Over the years, I searched hundreds of works in universities' and public libraries, and I spent countless hours collecting first-hand statements from the works of most of the greatest luminaries of the past. The result of my exploration was most fascinating and the conclusion most uplifting. The evidence was undeniable: the vast majority of the greatest minds of the past believed in God. In fact, many lived very devout Christian lives.

         In this web site I want to make available the result of my search, so as to share with others many inspiring statements about God from titans like Galileo, Newton, Copernicus and Pasteur in Science; Luminaries like Shakespeare, Milton, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky in Literature; brilliant thinkers like Kant, Hegel, Locke and Rousseau in Philosophy, Giants in art like Michelangelo, Leonardo, Rubens and Renoir and supreme musicians like Beethoven, Mozart, Haydn and Bach.

          Much effort has been invested in making sure that each quotation is accompanied by a detailed reference, so as to make the material academically useful for works others may write in the future.

          My hope is that more material will be added in the future, as time allows.  In the meantime, may you find the thoughts of the greatest minds of the past about their Creator most enlightening and inspiring.

Michael Caputo