Definition of Alchemy

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Alchemy

An imaginary art which aimed to transmute the baser metals into gold, to find the panacea, or universal remedy for diseases, etc. It led the way to modern chemistry.

A mixed metal composed mainly of brass, formerly used for various utensils; hence, a trumpet.

Miraculous power of transmuting something common into something precious.

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Alchemy Quotations

The essence of cinema is editing. It's the combination of what can be extraordinary images of people during emotional moments, or images in a general sense, put together in a kind of alchemy.
Francis Ford Coppola

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.
Henry A. Kissinger

Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.
Paracelsus

Although Alchemy has now fallen into contempt, and is even considered a thing of the past, the physicain should not be influenced by such judgements.
Paracelsus

This is alchemy, and this is the office of Vulcan; he is the apothecary and chemist of the medicine.
Paracelsus

Medicine rests upon four pillars - philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics.
Paracelsus

This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.
Paracelsus

Alchemy is the art of far and near, and I think poetry is alchemy in that way. It's delightful to distort size, to see something that's tiny as though it were vast.
Robert Morgan

I have always looked upon alchemy in natural philosophy to be like enthusiasm in divinity, and to have troubled the world much to the same purpose.
William Temple

None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.
Edith Hamilton

Alchemy Translations

alchemy in French is alchimie
alchemy in Swedish is alkemi

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