Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

French Philosopher

Christopher Hitchens

Read with care, George Orwell's diaries, from the years 1931 to 1949, can greatly enrich our understanding of how Orwell transmuted the raw material of everyday experience into some of his best-known novels and polemics.

American Author

Irving Stone

The biographical novel is a true and documented story of one human being's journey across the face of the years, transmuted from the raw material of life into the delight and purity of an authentic art form.

American Writer

Neri Oxman

I like to think of synthetic biology as liquid alchemy, only instead of transmuting precious metals, you're synthesizing new biological functionality inside very small channels. It's called microfluidics.

American Architect

Barbara Deming

Our task, of course, is to transmute the anger that is affliction into the anger that is determination to bring about change. I think, in fact, that one could give that as a definition of revolution.

Mencius

Evil exists to glorify the good. Evil is negative good. It is a relative term. Evil can be transmuted into good. What is evil to one at one time, becomes good at another time to somebody else.

Chinese Philosopher

Conrad Black

I'm not a xenophobe - I think immigration is a good thing for most countries - but they transmute the foibles of their native tongues into English in a way that's difficult to figure out.

British Businessman

Donald Johanson

You don't just magically flip some evolutionary switch somewhere and transmute a quadruped into an upright-walking bipedal human.

American Scientist

Edith Hamilton

None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.

William Shenstone

Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.

English Poet

Used to express the idea of changing one thing into another in an abstract, non-literal sense.

Abstract Concept

Can be used in scientific contexts to describe the change of substances or elements.

Scientific Transformation

Often utilized metaphorically to talk about personal growth or shifts in ideas.

Metaphoric Usage

Implies a deep or significant change, not something superficial or minor.

Profound Change

Speaks to a radical inner transformation, as in beliefs or attitudes.

Internal Revolution

In historical and fantasy contexts, refers to the mythical ability of alchemists.

Alchemy's Imagination

Carries a mystical or magical connotation due to its roots in alchemy.

Magical Connotation

 new lifeforms that were computationally grown, additively manufactured and biologically augmented. I like to think of synthetic biology as liquid alchemy, only instead of transmuting precious metals, you're synthesizing new biological functionality inside very small channels.

Design at the...

 Miniatura was transmuted into English in the 16th century as the word,  miniature , and since that time, it has had the exact same meaning we use today.

Transmute

Abstract Concept

Scientific Transformation

Metaphoric Usage

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