Science is almost totally incompatible with religion.

- Peter Atkins

Truth is not arrived at by majority vote.

- Peter Atkins

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

- 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

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

I regard teaching religion as purveying lies.

- Peter Atkins

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

- Peter Atkins

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