We wait, starving for moments of high magic to inspire us…

“Let Life race you out beyond your own boundaries over and over again until you are comfortable with watching the Map of Normal's edge…

— Jacob Nordby

Hey, have you ever heard of the Alchemists? " "Sure, " he said. "Of course you have. " "Why? Did you run into them?…

— Richelle Mead

“With or without our knowledge, we are all alchemists.”

— Eric Micha'el Leventhal

We have achieved two of the three alchemists' dreams: We have transmuted the elements and learned to fly. Immortality is next.

— Max More

“Codebreakers are linguistic alchemists, a mystical tribe attempting to conjure sensible words out of meaningless symbols.”

— Simon Singh

Why does it have to be so cut-and-dried? In your view, I either have to hate them or be in league with them. There’s…

— Richelle Mead

“That’s what alchemists do. They show that, when we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better, too.”

— Paulo Coelho

“And what went wrong when other alchemists tried to make gold and were unable to do so?" "They were looking only for gold his…

— Paulo Coelho

“By and large, the only skill the alchemists of Ankh-Morpork had discovered so far was the ability to turn gold into less gold.”

— Terry Pratchett

The alchemists spent years in their laboratories, observing the fire that purified the metals. They spent so much time close to the fire that…

— Paulo Coelho

I thought Alchemists avoided alcohol the same way they do primary colors.

— Richelle Mead

When alchemists first learned how to distill spirits, they called it aqua vitae, the water of life, and far from considering it the work…

— Gene Logsdon

The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“The old stars-and-moons act was a good way to farm the unduly trusting. But the need to raise money in the first place seemed…

— Neal Stephenson

Perfect alchemists I keep who can transmute substances without end, and thus the corner of my garden is an inexhaustible treasure-chest. Here you can…

— Henry David Thoreau