Occupation: Chemist Birth: August 10, 1940
Science is almost totally incompatible with religion..
Well it's fairly straightforward: there isn't one [a god]. And there's no evidence for one, no reason to believe that there is one, and so I don't be….
Someone with a fresh mind, one not conditioned by upbringing and environment, would doubtless look at science and the powerful reductionism that it i….
Any argument that asserts that 'God did it' is a sign of a lazy mind..
The emergence of consciousness, like the unfolding of a leaf, relies upon restraint..
The challenge of elucidating living processes -- including consciousness and all its baggage which we bundle together as 'the human spirit' -- is onl….
My aim is to argue that the universe can come into existence without intervention, and that there is no need to invoke the idea of a Supreme Being in….
I regard teaching religion as purveying lies..
Truth is not arrived at by majority vote..
Chemistry begins in the stars. The stars are the source of the chemical elements, which are the building blocks of matter and the core of our subject..
Science reveals where religion conceals. Where religion purports to explain, it actually resorts to tautology. To assert that "God did it" is no more….
A great deal of the universe does not need any explanation. Elephants, for instance. Once molecules have learnt to compete and to create other molecu….
We are children of chaos, and the deep structure of change is decay. At root, there is only corruption, and the unstemmable tide of chaos. Gone is pu….