“Someone with a fresh mind, one not conditioned by upbringing and environment, would doubtless look at science and the powerful reductionism that it inspires as overwhelmingly the better mode of understanding the world, and would doubtless scorn religion as sentimental… — Peter Atkins Copy Share Image
Science reveals where religion conceals. Where religion purports to explain, it actually resorts to tautology. To assert that "God did it" is no more than an admission of ignorance dressed deceitfully as an explanation. — Peter Atkins Copy Share Image
“Laugh. We’re all going to be dead anyway some day. So while you should try your hardest to make the most of your life,… — Peter Atkins Copy Share Image
“I try to put things into two buckets: one I can do something about and one I can’t. The things I can’t do anything… — Peter Atkins Copy Share Image
We are children of chaos, and the deep structure of change is decay. At root, there is only corruption, and the unstemmable tide of… — Peter Atkins Copy Share Image
“When asked by Rod Liddle in the documentary The Trouble with Atheism "Give me your views on the existence, or otherwise, of God",Peter Atkins… — Peter Atkins Copy Share Image
“With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die. - Abraham Lincoln” — Peter Atkins Copy Share Image
A great deal of the universe does not need any explanation. Elephants, for instance. Once molecules have learnt to compete and to create other… — Peter Atkins Copy Share Image
Chemistry begins in the stars. The stars are the source of the chemical elements, which are the building blocks of matter and the core… — Peter Atkins Copy Share Image
The emergence of consciousness, like the unfolding of a leaf, relies upon restraint. — Peter Atkins Copy Share Image
“All change...arises from an underlying collapse into chaos...what may appear to us to be motive and purpose is in fact ultimately motiveless, purposeless decay.” — Peter Atkins Copy Share Image
“Life is easy to identify but remarkably difficult to define. Too tight a definition excludes what looks like life and too loose captures too… — Peter Atkins Copy Share Image
