Polymaths Quotes
- I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up. — Karl Kraus
- Ibn Firnas was a polymath: a physician, a rather bad poet, the first to make glass from stones (quartz), a student of music, and inventor… — Lynn Townsend White, Jr.
- You could give Aristotle a tutorial and you could thrill him to the core of his being. Aristotle was an encyclopedic polymath, an all time… — Richard Dawkins
- To present a whole world that doesn’t exist and make it seem real, we have to more or less pretend we’re polymaths. That’s just the… — William Gibson
- The 'polymath' had already died out by the close of the eighteenth century, and in the following century intensive education replaced extensive, so that by… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer