Terry Pratchett Quotes

I consider myself an alchemist. An alchemist is basically a mystical chemist, right? And one of the great feats that alchemists used to do is they would take lead - just take a chunk of lead - and they could turn lead into gold.

You are an alchemist; make gold of that.

Get what you can, and what you get hold; 'tis the Stone that will turn all your Lead into Gold.

In olden times gold was manufactured by science; nowadays science must be renewed by gold. We have fixed the volatile and we must now volatilize the fixed—in other words, we have materialized spirit, and we must now spiritualize matter.

I thought Alchemists avoided alcohol the same way they do primary colors.

The Grape that can with Logic absolute The Two-and-Seventy jarring Sects confute: The sovereign Alchemist that in a trice Life's leaden metal into Gold transmute.

Work hard and meticulously. When in trouble, look closely at a text that is a good example of what you're trying to do. And be patient.

The Earth turns to Gold, in the hands of the wise.

So if we could not have love, my husband and I, then at least I could have alchemy.

Everyone knows Newton as the great scientist. Few remember that he spent half his life muddling with alchemy , looking for the philosopher's stone. That was the pebble by the seashore he really wanted to find.

No Alchymy to saving.

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 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.

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

Learning how to work and learning how to fail is important.

An inventor's path is chorused with groans, riddled with fist-banging and punctuated by head scratches.

Focused, hard work is the real key to success. Keep your eyes on the goal, and just keep taking the next step towards completing it. If you aren't sure which way to do something, do it both ways and see which works better.

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.

I have always said, 'Never stop work.' Continue work and sort out issues simultaneously.

Invention, my dear friends, is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation, and 2% butterscotch ripple

I'm not a magician. I'am an alchemyst, a man of science, though perhaps not the science you would be familiar with.

We look for the Secret - the Philosopher's Stone, the Elixir of the Wise, Supreme Enlightenment, 'God' or whatever...and all the time it is carrying us about...It is the human nervous system itself.

I've never wanted to be a witch, but an alchemist, now that's a different matter. To invent this wizard world, I've learned a ridiculous amount about alchemy. Perhaps much of it I'll never use in the books, but I have to know in detail what magic can and cannot do in order to set the parameters and establish the stories' internal logic.

There was no "me" in Alchemy. Well, phonetically there was, but that wasn't the point.