polymath
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James Lighthill was indeed a brilliant scientist; but he was also a polymath , with knowledge, insight and enthusiasm for the arts and humanities.
a person of wide-ranging knowledge or learning.
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This mystical attraction to words would lead him not only to become a linguistic 'polymath' , but to invent his own private language, with its own alphabet, which he used in writing his diary.
A prodigy and a 'polymath' , he first came to notice as ‘the bad boy of music’ in the Twenties Paris avant-garde, associated with Pound.
In high school, I studied American history with a nineteenth-century-style 'polymath' who assigned us readings from Richard Hofstadter.
He was a 'polymath' and was offered a history scholarship before opting for medicine.
James Lighthill was indeed a brilliant scientist; but he was also a 'polymath' , with knowledge, insight and enthusiasm for the arts and humanities.
I took heart from an interview with Thomas Stoppard where somebody said to him, ‘You're such a 'polymath' ,’ and he said, ‘Yes, for about three months.’
Raskin's CV reads something like a masterclass in being a 'polymath' : he was an accomplished musician, programmer and designer.
Moreau's art is a reassemblage of the memory and the tricks of the memory, as thorough and as convolute as Proust's vast quest for a half-lost past that was, likewise, the lifework of a 'polymath' spellbound by beauty.
An autodidact and a 'polymath' , Wallace studied economics, meteorology, history, genetics, and many other subjects.
a Renaissance 'polymath'
A prodigious 'polymath' , he wrote on subjects as varied as grammar and gout, ethics and eczema, and was highly regarded in his lifetime as a philosopher as well as a doctor.
What I didn't know at the time was he was also a 'polymath' , with a wide range of interests and a photographic memory.
In a century of eclectic geniuses, Casanova was a supreme 'polymath' .
In it he exhibits a 'polymathic' fluency in nearly every language of social theory from the late 18th century to the present.
Margie Thomson has chronicled his journey from musical whiz kid to 'polymathic' author.
This, Zimmer claims, was the achievement of the group of virtuosi - highly talented 'polymaths' more or less trapped in Oxford during the civil war and the Cromwellian republic of the mid-17th century.
'Polymathy' could not be maintained because of the continuously increasing knowledge base that resulted in the establishment of scientific disciplines and scientists who knew much more in a specific area.
His portrait of this elusive, intensely private genius describes Faraday's links with painters and poets, 'polymaths' and mystics.
There is a similar irony in the fact that he was one of the last great 'polymaths' - not in the frivolous sense of having a wide general knowledge, but in the deeper sense of one who is a citizen of the whole world of intellectual inquiry.
I was discussing the problem with two 'polymathic' friends of mine, reproductive biologist Jack Cohen and mathematician Ian Stewart, co-authors of Figments of Reality, Evolving the Alien and The Science of Discworld.
In an age of 'polymaths' who mastered all the disciplines, knew many languages, and wrote more than any modern can read, chronology, with its varied contents and technical difficulties, seemed the essence of scholarship.
Specialisation is seen as far more desirable than 'polymathy' .
That is the daunting task for undaunted talk radio hosts, Web pundits, and bar drunks, and a major reason why such 'polymathic' opinion dispensers rarely provide much more than a light snack for those seeking the nourishment of truth.
These 'polymaths' often resented their lack of recognition from specialist professional academics, and compensated by seeking political success.
Ben would engage in diverse acts of self-expression - art-works, music, craft-works, scientific theorisations - by which a 'polymathic' apprehension of the world would be concentrated into new forms of representation.
If you are one of the benighted majority, you should know that he was one of those Victorian Scottish 'polymaths' ; a poet, theologian, and geologist of some genius.
Writing in The New York Times Book Review, Judith Shulevitz gushed, ‘Novelists, in short, have become our public intellectuals - our 'polymaths' , our geographers, our scholars of the material world.’
For as long as there has been a publishing industry, there have been used books, that supposedly quaint world of 'polymaths' and antiquarians poking about musty, cluttered stores for titles few readers would know.
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