Alchemist Quote by Fred Alan Wolf

Alchemy is a kind of philosophy: a kind of thinking that leads to a way of understanding.

— Marcel Duchamp

The real alchemy consists in being able to turn gold back again into something else; and that's the secret that most of your friends…

— Edith Wharton

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

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

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Much early alchemy seems to have been adventure. You heated and mixed and burnt and pounded and to see what would happen. An adventure…

— Ian Hacking

“While the alchemist of old sought to turn lead into gold, the modern alchemist has a more noble dream: to turn men from rot…

— Agona Apell

This is why alchemy exists," the boy said. "So that everyone will search for his treasure, find it, and then want to be better…

— Paulo Coelho

Alchemists turned into chemists when they stopped keeping secrets.

— Eric S. Raymond

“And yet surely to alchemy this right is due, that it may be compared to the husbandman whereof Aesop makes the fable, that when…

— Francis Bacon

I consider myself an alchemist. An alchemist is basically a mystical chemist, right? And one of the great feats that alchemists used to do…

— Will Smith

I so connected to symbolically being able to turn lead into gold. My grandmother used to say, "Life give you a lemon, you go…

— Will Smith

Even mistaken hypotheses and theories are of use in leading to discoveries. This remark is true in all the sciences. The alchemists founded chemistry…

— Claude Bernard