“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, when something funny happens, when you make a mistake, or even (and perhaps especially) when bad… — 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
Any argument that asserts that 'God did it' is a sign of a lazy mind. — Peter Atkins Copy Share Image
Taking care of yourself means finding a balance that works for you, then having the discipline to maintain that balance — Peter Atkins Copy Share Image
“Someone with a fresh mind, one not conditioned by upbringing and environment, would doubtless look at science and the powerful reductionism that it inspires… — Peter Atkins Copy Share Image
