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

Grounded in the natural philosophy of the Middle Ages, alchemy formed a bridge: on the one hand into the past, to Gnosticism, and on the other into the future, to the modern psychology of the unconscious.

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.

I love the alchemy of cooking, the theatre of it. It's creating something.

My work is like a dialogue between me and unseen powers, like alchemy.

I discovered philosophy in my youth when I read 'wildly,' and thus I was exposed to the world of ideas.

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.

I'm very passionate about philosophy and religion.

But I owe it to the subject to say, that it has long afforded me what philosophy is so often thought, and made, barren of - the fun of discovery, the pleasures of co-operation, and the satisfaction of reaching agreement.

You can make a good show, but you still need some magical alchemy to get people to watch.