Discipline Quote 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 your life,…

— Peter Atkins

“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

Truth is not arrived at by majority vote.

— Peter Atkins

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

“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

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

— Peter Atkins

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

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

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

— Peter Atkins

“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

“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

Science is almost totally incompatible with religion.

— Peter Atkins