Oh. Small sample size, but I got to know 10 Nobel Laureates in the hard sciences and 9 of 10 were atheist or agnostic. Professor Townes was a believer, but not just on faith. All my Christian life it was about faith. Believing. Prof. Townes backed it up with science and multidisciplinary research, which was very helpful to me at a time when I was intellectualizing away my faith.