Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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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 create other molecules in their own image, elephants, and things resembling elephants, will in due course be found roaming around the countryside ... Some of the things resembling elephants will be men.

Peter Atkins's Popular Quotes

Science is almost totally incompatible with religion.

- Peter Atkins

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

- Peter Atkins

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…

- Peter Atkins

Truth is not arrived at by majority vote.

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I regard teaching religion as purveying lies.

- Peter Atkins

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

- Peter Atkins

The challenge of elucidating living processes -- including consciousness and all its baggage which we bundle together as 'the human spirit' -- is onl…

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

- Peter Atkins

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…

- Peter Atkins