12 Quotes by Peter Atkins

Science reveals where religion conceals. Where religion purports to explain, it actually resorts to tautology. To assert that “God did it” is no more than an admission of ignorance dressed deceitfully as an explanation...

Life, at root, is molecular bumbling.

The challenge of elucidating living processes – including consciousness and all its baggage which we bundle together as ‘the human spirit’ – is only one example of a challenge where hard work is paying off and science does not need to accept the false explanations peddled by religions.