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Quotes About Magic

In the hands of a genius, engineering turns to magic, philosophy becomes poetry, and science pure imagination.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.
~ Jacob Bronowski
The world is magic. Science is but an insipid style of sorcery.
~ Rudy Rucker
The plough is to the farmer what the wand is to the sorcerer. Its effect is really like sorcery.
~ Thomas Jefferson
There is no such things as magic, though there is such a thing as knowledge of the hidden ways of Nature.
~ H. Rider Haggard, She
The old spelling MAGICK has been adopted throughout in order to distinguish the Science of the Magi from all its counterfeits.
~ Aleister Crowley
When I write my books, actually I'm known for very logical rule-based magic systems. I write with one foot in fantasy and one foot in science fiction.
~ Brandon Sanderson
The central opposition between magic and science is the opposition between power and knowledge.
~ Jacob Bronowski
Science is just magic with better PR.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
William knows that science and magic are the same thing; magic is only science that hasn't been explained yet. Tonight he has made chemistry into magic for her.
~ Joshilyn Jackson
Magic [makes] possible today what science will make a reality tomorrow.
~ Marco Tempest
Magic's just science that we don't understand yet.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
The Snow White the midnight the moon tales of the mechanics
~ Marissa Meyer, Winter
Science is the special province of the ego. And magic and art are the special province of something else. I could name it, but I won't. It prefers to be unnamed
~ Terence McKenna
Plutus himself, That knows the tinct and multiplying med'cine, Hath not in nature's mystery more science Than I have in this ring.
~ William Shakespeare
Im a massive science fiction and fantasy geek.
~ Robert Kazinsky
Magic could not be measured and explained in scientific terms, for magic grew through destroying the very natural principles that made science as people knew it impossible.
~ Ilona Andrews
The Magical Negro rested his red cane on his shoulder and leisurely strolled into the forest to see if he could find him some hobbits, castles, dragons, princesses, and all that other shit.
~ Nnedi Okorafor, Kabu Kabu
We live in the most epic of fantasy worlds.
~ T.L. Rese
Not all the magic of earth is benevolent.
~ Alden Bell
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.""Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
The Victorian era was perhaps the last point in Western history when magic and science were allowed to coexist.
~ Jonathan Auxier
Your Ancestors Called it Magic, but You Call it Science. I Come From a Land Where They Are One and the Same.
~ Thor Odinson
Magic is an ancient practice that has power over superstitious mind.
~ Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity