Polymaths

"Nowadays people that are called polymaths are dabblers-are dabblers in many different areas," he says. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Other challenges have followed, and though the polymaths haven't found solutions every time, they have pioneered a new approach to problem-solving. ❋ Michael Nielsen (2011)

His name was al-Kindi (801-873) (Latinised as Alkindus) and he is regarded as the first of the Abbasid polymaths. ❋ Jim Al-Khalili (2010)

This led me to realise that writing was a possible career -- and not something reserved to a happy few (my typology of writers so far included mostly impressive polymaths like Victor Hugo). ❋ Unknown (2010)

Nowadays, you can spend decades just getting caught up to the state of the art in one field, where 50 or 100 years ago someone could be at the leading edge in a variety of areas (there are fewer polymaths than in yearspast) ❋ Unknown (2010)

Web home of the brilliant, lovely Kathryn Cramer - one of our world's rare and precious polymaths. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The sand moved about until it reached the nodes, and the array of patterns resulting from the "playing" of different notes caused great excitement among the Parisian polymaths. ❋ Peggy (2008)

Van Gulik was one of those polymaths who blossoms early but never quite fulfills his potential. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Tagged with science fiction, voracious antisocial polymaths, writing ❋ Unknown (2008)

Leonardo da Vinci was a [polymath] and maybe [Urban Dictionary author] [Gumba] Gumba is as well ❋ AKACroatalin (2015)

[Leonardo DaVinci] is [one of] [the world's] most recognizable polymathic people. ❋ HSL: Hearts,stars,&lightning (2011)

[Leonardo da Vinci] was a [great] [polymath]! ❋ DanSom (2019)

"Is Chris [playing the trumpet], tap dancing and [dicing] vegetables for the [goulash] he's making from scratch later whilst reciting Dante's 'Divine Comedy' in Latin?" "Yes, he's a polymath." ❋ ChrisBoyle11 (2017)

Leonardo da Vinci, a father of paleontology and architecture, has been the most influential [polymath]. Or Sure, [Flavin] was no polymath, no Renaissance man, though he did share with Leonardo an [empiricist's] preoccupation with light and its effect on perception. ❋ JJCORPUS (2021)