Alchemy Quotes
A curated collection of the best quotes about Alchemy.
Top Quotes
“Pseudoscience”
“Philosopher's stone”
“History of chemistry”
“You are an alchemist; make gold of that.”
“The starving chemist in his golden views
Supremely blest.”
“alchemy”
“Wikipedia: Alchemy”
“Wikibooks: Alchemy”
“Wikicommons: Alchemy”
“Wikisource Portal: Alchemy”
“Transmutemini (inquit) transmute∣mini de lapidibus mortuis in Lapides vivos philosophicos.”
“[A]n art without principles, the beginning of which was deceit, the progress delusion, and the end poverty.”
“And mark yon alchemist, with zodiac-spangled zone,
Wrenching the mandrake root that fattens in the gloom.”
“If by fire
Of sooty coal th' empiric alchymist
Can turn, or holds it possible to turn,
Metals of drossiest ore to perfect gold.”
“Alchemy is an erotic science, involved in buried aspects of reality, aimed at purifying and transforming all being and matter.”
“[E]ach author seems to have aimed to write treatises intelligible only to himself, and we greatly doubt his success in even this respect.”