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Peter Atkins

(1940) Chemist

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Peter Atkins is a chemist, best known for Physical chemistry.

Quick Facts About Peter Atkins

Born: August 10, 1940
Profession: Chemist
Notable works: Physical chemistry

About Peter Atkins

Peter William Atkins is an English chemist and a Fellow of Lincoln College at the University of Oxford. He retired in 2007. He is a prolific writer of popular chemistry textbooks, including Physical Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, and Molecular Quantum Mechanics. Atkins is also the author of a number of popular science books, including Atkins' Molecules, Galileo's Finger: The Ten Great Ideas of Science and On Being.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Peter Atkins

“Laugh. We’re all going to be dead anyway some day. So while you should try your hardest to make the most of…

Bad thing

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“I try to put things into two buckets: one I can do something about and one I can’t. The things I can’t…

Bad situation

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Truth is not arrived at by majority vote.

Majority

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We are children of chaos, and the deep structure of change is decay. At root, there is only corruption, and the unstemmable…

Accepting

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“When asked by Rod Liddle in the documentary The Trouble with Atheism "Give me your views on the existence, or otherwise, of…

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“With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die. - Abraham Lincoln”

Fear

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A great deal of the universe does not need any explanation. Elephants, for instance. Once molecules have learnt to compete and to…

Be a man

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Chemistry begins in the stars. The stars are the source of the chemical elements, which are the building blocks of matter and…

Block

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The emergence of consciousness, like the unfolding of a leaf, relies upon restraint.

Consciousness

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“All change...arises from an underlying collapse into chaos...what may appear to us to be motive and purpose is in fact ultimately motiveless,…

Change

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“Life is easy to identify but remarkably difficult to define. Too tight a definition excludes what looks like life and too loose…

Biology

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Science is almost totally incompatible with religion.

Religion

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Any argument that asserts that 'God did it' is a sign of a lazy mind.

Argument

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Taking care of yourself means finding a balance that works for you, then having the discipline to maintain that balance

Discipline

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“Someone with a fresh mind, one not conditioned by upbringing and environment, would doubtless look at science and the powerful reductionism that…

Atheism

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“1. Create space. 2. Try not to worry. 3. Don't do really dumb things. 4. Build character and make friends. 5. Care…

Change

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“I’ve found you can choose to let all the things that go wrong in life depress you. Or, you can accept that…

Life

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Science reveals where religion conceals. Where religion purports to explain, it actually resorts to tautology. To assert that "God did it" is…

Admission

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Someone with a fresh mind, one not conditioned by upbringing and environment, would doubtless look at science and the powerful reductionism that…

Environment

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