Paracelsus on Science
b. 1541 Switzerland
← All quotes by Paracelsus
6 quotes
The physician's duty is to heal the sick, not enrich the apothecaries.
Luther is abundantly learned, therefore you hate him and me, but we are at least a match for you.
the true use of chemistry is not to make gold but to prepare medicines.
For the alchemist is the baker in baking the bread, the vintner in making the wine, the weaver in weaving cloth. Thus, whatever arises out of nature for human use is brought to that condition ordained by nature by an alchemist.
the chapter Alchimia in Paragranum (1530)
I admonish you not to reject the method of experiment, but according as your power permits, to follow it without prejudice. For every experiment is like a weapon which must be used according to its peculiar power, as a spear to thrust, a club to strike, so also is it with experiments.
I praise the chemical physicians, for they do not go about gorgeous in satins, silks, and velvets, silver daggers hanging at their sides, and white gloves on their hands, but they tend their work at the fire patiently day and night. They do not go promenading, but seek their recreation in laboratory. They thrust their fingers among the coals into dirt and rubbish and not into golden rings.