"The labor of the alchemists, who were called……" — William Butler Yeats

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• Even mistaken hypotheses and theories are of use in leading to discoveries. This remark is true in all the sciences.… — Claude Bernard
• A fear Paul had transformed all these years, like a gifted alchemist, into anger and rebellion. — Kim Edwards
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• Jesmyn Ward is an alchemist. She transmutes pain and loss into gold. Men We Reaped illustrates hardships but thankfully, vitally,… — Victor LaValle
• I hold the view that the alchemist’s hope of conjuring out of matter the philosophical gold, or the panacea, or… — Carl Jung
• I've never wanted to be a witch, but an alchemist, now that's a different matter. To invent this wizard world,… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
• The alchemists spent years in their laboratories, observing the fire that purified the metals. They spent so much time close… — Paulo Coelho
• Thanks to the central bank, most ‘monetary experts’ and ‘leading macro-economists’ can, by putting them on the payroll, be turned… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe
• It is significant comment on the victory of science over magic that were someone to say ‘if I put this… — Cyril Connolly
• This LGBT singing choir has demonstrated how women are investing in tradition to create change, like alchemists turning discord into… — Kavita Ramdas
• Like the alchemist of old, for ever searching for the philosopher's stone, the analyst to-day never stops looking for stronger… — Savielly Tartakower
• Thanks to his complex convictions, made strong with the forces of animus and anima, the alchemist believes he is seizing… — Gaston Bachelard

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