Peter William AtkinsFRSC (born 10 August 1940) is an English chemist and a Fellow of Lincoln College at the University of Oxford. He retired in 2007. He is a prolific writer of popular chemistry textbooks, including Physical Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, and Molecular Quantum Mechanics. Atkins is also the author of a number of popular science books, including Atkins' Molecules, Galileo's Finger: The Ten Great Ideas of Science and On Being. (from the Internet)
I could barely follow what he is saying, which certainly challenges our intelligence and the ability to imagine.
What he, a materialist he calls himself, is saying about our physical universe
seems to have something in common with the spiritual universe of nothingness and enlightenment
in Buddhism and self-emptying and self-transformation by catholic monastic, Thomas Merton.
Peter William Atkins FRSC (born 10 August 1940) is an English chemist and a Fellow of Lincoln College at the University of Oxford. He retired in 2007. He is a prolific writer of popular chemistry textbooks, including Physical Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, and Molecular Quantum Mechanics. Atkins is also the author of a number of popular science books, including Atkins' Molecules, Galileo's Finger: The Ten Great Ideas of Science and On Being. (from the Internet)
I could barely follow what he is saying, which certainly challenges our intelligence and the ability to imagine.
What he, a materialist he calls himself, is saying about our physical universe
seems to have something in common with the spiritual universe of nothingness and enlightenment
in Buddhism and self-emptying and self-transformation by catholic monastic, Thomas Merton.