Peter Dinklage

I have a friend - not a dwarf - who's an alchemist of sorts. He concocted a men's cologne... He gave me a bottle as a gift. I was thinking we should totally put this on the market. You know how Jessica Simpson and Beyonce have signature perfumes and make a mint? I'm thinking this cologne could be my ticket to fortune.

American Actor

Vic Mensa

No I.D. is like an alchemist and he'll only give you so much at one time. It's for the best at the end of the day, cause through the process of working with No I.D. I was able to soak up his perspective for songwriting and production and keeping music alive.

American Musician

Molly Crabapple

Burlesque girls were alchemists. They were steel-tough performers who were willing to use kitchens as dressing rooms, haul their costume bags through the snow, and go into debt over fake diamonds, all for the five minutes onstage when they were goddesses.

American Artist

Alan Moore

When alchemists were talking about turning lead to gold, they were talking about turning a leaden consciousness, which most of us exist in during our lives, into a golden consciousness, which is a much better place to be.

British Writer

E. P. Thompson

Could I interrupt here, because there is an alternative explanation, which you are particularly well placed to examine. You know the argument that it is the alchemists in the laboratories who invent the sweet new kits.

British Historian

Pharrell Williams

The people have allowed me to - they've respected my choice of wanting to be like, a little, you know, a baby alchemist, and just trying to mix different cultures together and things that I think are interesting.

Sam Kean

Medieval alchemists, despite their lust for gold, considered mercury the most potent and poetic substance in the universe. As a child, I would have agreed with them.

American Writer

Billy Joel

In a way, we are magicians. We are alchemists, sorcerers and wizards. We are a very strange bunch. But there is great fun in being a wizard.

Jamie Parker

I know I'm only as good as the material I've got to work with. I'm not an alchemist, not when it comes to writing or production.

English Actor

Arthur Schopenhauer

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

German Philosopher

Used to describe someone with exceptional creative skills, like in arts or cooking.

Creative Mastery

The word 'alchemist' is often used metaphorically to suggest transformation.

Metaphorical Use

Not involving real magic, but showcasing skill that seems magical.

Figurative Magic

Refers to the old practice of trying to change metals into gold or finding eternal life.

Historical Practice

Alchemy was an early form of chemistry with philosophical aspects.

Scientific Curiosity

Alchemists were often associated with mystical and magical processes.

Mystical Elements

 The flame then makes its way through the firework's encasing and the same reaction occurs high above our heads. So, while the Chinese alchemists never found the compound for eternal life, they did find something that would go on to shape all of civilization, something that has caused many tragic moments in human history,

The deadly irony of...

 Like many other alchemists of his time, Brand was trying to extract gold from the human body. Brand hit upon what he thought was the most obvious answer to his urine. Urine is gold in coloration and could perhaps have gold in it. So, Brand collected as much urine as he possibly could,

Solving the puzzle of...

 to securing his historical legacy because he was obsessed with his mortality. He spent his last years desperately employing alchemists and deploying expeditions in search of elixirs of life that would help him achieve immortality. And as early as the first year of his reign,

The incredible history...

 has had some myth or legend of an elixir of life or a fountain of youth or something that promises to keep us going forever. Ancient Egypt had such myths, ancient Babylon, ancient India. Throughout European history, we find them in the work of the alchemists,

The 4 stories we tell...

 I know it's hard to believe that anything that's so small or only has one cell can do anything powerful, but they can. These creatures are microscopic alchemists, with the ability to transform their environment

Meet the microscopic...

 drugs today if he hadn't gotten caught thank you I felt the work I was doing was so important for humanity that I was willing to take the risks of being The Alchemist hiding away in his laboratory

Underground LSD Lab PIPE...

 This moves us from the mindset of trying to change the hearts and the deficiency mindset of tolerance, to becoming an alchemist, the type of magician that this world so desperately needs

When we design for...

 Jugaad solutions are not sophisticated or perfect, but they create more value at lower cost. For me, the entrepreneurs who will create Jugaad solutions are like alchemists.

Navi Radjou: Creative...

 gamma rays, transmutation. That ancient dream that had always eluded the alchemists was achieved through these same theories

David Deutsch: A new way...

 In medieval times, alchemists tried to achieve the seemingly impossible.