Top 29 Peter Atkins Quotes
#1. Box-office poison? Mr. Louis B. Mayer always asserted that the studio had built Stage 22, Stage 24 and the Irving Thalberg Building, brick by brick, from the income on my pictures.
Joan Crawford
#3. The emergence of consciousness, like the unfolding of a leaf, relies upon restraint.
Peter Atkins
#4. The fish might well have disappeared already, but Brody wasn't willing to gamble lives on the possibility: the odds might be good, but the stakes were prohibitively high.
Peter Benchley
#5. [Religion is] a fantasy [and is] completely empty of any explanatory content. It is also evil.
Peter Atkins
#6. As my colleague, the physical chemist Peter Atkins, puts it, we must be equally agnostic about the theory that there is a teapot in orbrit around the planet Pluto. We can't disprove it. But that doesn't mean the theory that there is a teapot is on level terms with the theory that there isn't.
Richard Dawkins
#7. How happy I am to see myself as imperfect and to be in need of God's mercy.
Therese Of Lisieux
#8. Focusing on what matters means saying no to things that don't matter. Otherwise, your life becomes cluttered with distractions.
Peter Atkins
#9. A book store is a treasure chest. Every time you walk in one, you strike gold.
Regina Brett
#10. I'm sorry, could you please tell me what the definition of the word "is" is?
William J. Clinton
#11. Songwriting never gets old. There's always stuff to write about.
Tori Kelly
#12. I regard teaching religion as purveying lies.
Peter Atkins
#13. 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.
Peter Atkins
#14. 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.
Peter Atkins
#15. I would rather gamble on our vision than make a 'me, too' product.
Steve Jobs
#16. Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being, while movement and methodical physical exercise save it and preserve it. - Plato
Peter Atkins
#17. 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 one of its numerous manifestations.
Peter Atkins
#18. Maybe love is thinking that every time your partner does or says something mundane that you want to start a Mexican wave from here to Uzbekistan in utter delight.
Cecelia Ahern
#19. Theologians could not even agree about the nature of their gods. These personages ranged from "blue touch-paper gods" who started everything and never interfered again, to "infinitely meddlesome gods who, as well as starting it off, police every elementary particle.
Peter Atkins
#20. You make music to move people and you don't get to pick who you move. You just don't. It's exclusionary and elitist and I just never felt that way about music, of all things. The great unifier.
Mark Lanegan
#21. Science is almost totally incompatible with religion.
Peter Atkins
#22. I want the troops from Great Britain and the U.S. to be successful, but by the same token, Afghanistan has always been a screw-up.
Clint Eastwood
#23. Any argument that asserts that 'God did it' is a sign of a lazy mind.
Peter Atkins
#24. It is not possible to be intellectually honest and believe in gods. And it is not possible to believe in gods and be a true scientist.
Peter Atkins
#25. Children need parents who model self-discipline rather than preach it. They learn from what their parents are actually willing to do; not from what they say they do.
John Bradshaw
#26. Answer e-mails from junior people before more senior ones. Junior people have further to go and tend to remember who slighted them.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#27. 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..
Peter Atkins
#28. 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 purpose; all that is left is direction. This is the bleakness we have to accept as we peer deeply and dispassionately into the heart of the Universe.
Peter Atkins
#29. 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 believe that there is one. And I think that it is rather foolish that people do think that there is one.
Peter Atkins