On giving her music a magical quality in “Esperanza Spalding Wants to Connect You to Your Body” https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2018/09/esperanza-spalding-12-little-spells-interview in Vanity Fair (2018 Sep 25)
“I have invented nothing. I have simply documented a magical alchemy that I want to share.”
Gregory Colbert (1960) Canadian photographer
As quoted in "Dances With Whales" by Alan Riding in The New York Times (22 April 2002) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/22/arts/dances-with-whales.html
Jan Smuts (1870–1950) military leader, politician and statesman from South Africa
Holism and Evolution (1926)
“Old poetics played a large part in my alchemy of the word.”
Arthur Rimbaud (1854–1891) French Decadent and Symbolist poet
La vieillerie poétique avait une bonne part dans mon alchimie du verbe. <br class="br"> Une Saison en Enfer http://www.mag4.net/Rimbaud/poesies/Season.html (A Season in Hell) (1873)
“The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.”
Aristotle (-384–-321 BC) Classical Greek philosopher, student of Plato and founder of Western philosophy
Coretta Scott King (1927–2006) American author, activist, and civil rights leader. Wife of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Harvard class day address (1968); published in the July 1, 1968, issue of Harvard Alumni Bulletin http://harvardmagazine.com/2011/05/coretta-scott-king-urges-students-to-speak-out-with-righteous-indignation <br class="br">As quoted in International Education Vol. 1, p. 26
“The only possible idea of India is that of a nation greater than the sum of its parts.”
Shashi Tharoor (1956) Indian politician, diplomat, author
The Hindu, "Strengthening Indianness ", Sunday, Jan 19, 2003, Available Online http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/mag/2003/01/19/stories/2003011900240300.htm <br class="br">2000s
Francis Bacon (1561–1626) English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, and author
Source: De Augmentis Scientiarum (1623) as quoted by Edward Thorpe, History of Chemistry, Vol. 1, p. 43.
