Alchemy Quote by Georg Ernst Stahl

It is my intent to beget a good understanding between the chymists and the mechanical philosophers who have hitherto been too little acquainted with…

— Robert Boyle

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

— Marcel Duchamp

Alchemy is about the generation of a psychic construct, a wholeness, a thing which has many properties, which is paradoxical, which is both mind…

— Terence McKenna

The alchemy of good curating amounts to this: Sometimes, placing one work of art near another makes one plus one equal three. Two artworks…

— Jerry Saltz

The old alchemy, or what was just called alchemy, has a history. Most people, if they've been trained in sciences, think of alchemy as…

— Fred Alan Wolf

Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to…

— Paracelsus

To make an artwork good enough to enter people's hearts is like what ancient Chinese called 'making stone into gold.' It is alchemy.

— Li Shan

“Once a molecule is asymmetric, its extension proceeds also in an asymmetrical sense. This concept completely eliminates the difference between natural and artificial synthesis.…

— Emil Fischer

“It is often surprising and illuminating to see what happens when things that were never intended to be placed next to each other are.…

— John Mulvany

Strive to preserve your health; and in this you will better succeed in proportion as you keep clear of the physicians, for their drugs…

— Leonardo da Vinci

Grounded in the natural philosophy of the Middle Ages, alchemy formed a bridge: on the one hand into the past, to Gnosticism, and on…

— Carl Jung

“... thirteen aluminum atoms grouped together in the right way do a killer bromine, the two entities indistinguishable in chemical reactions.”

— Sam Kean