Frederick Soddy Quotes

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.

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

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.

Then hast our the Red Stone perfect with less labour, expense of time and costs, for the which ever thank God.

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

The heart hid still in the dark, hard as the Philosopher's Stone.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.

Well, I see I am not designed to the finding out the Philosophers Stone, I have been so unlucky in my first attempts in chemistry.

Alchemy is really the secret tradition of the redemption of spirit from matter.

Thus you may multiply each stone 4 times & no more for they will then become oyles shining in ye dark and fit for magicall uses. You may ferment them with gold and silver, by keeping the stone and metal in fusion together for a day, & then project upon metalls. This is the multiplication of ye stone in vertue. To multiply it in weight ad to it of ye first Gold whether philosophic or vulgar.

Concerning alchemy it is more difficult to discover the actual state of things, in that the historians who specialise in this field seem sometimes to be under the wrath of God themselves; for, like those who write of the Bacon-Shakespeare controversy or on Spanish politics, they seem to become tinctured with the kind of lunacy they set out to describe.

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.

He is a dull observer whose experience has not taught him the reality and force of magic, as well as of chemistry.

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.