1. He is either a polymath or an extremely thorough researcher.

2. Will Wright is the great polymath of interactive design, weaving theories of architecture, astrophysics, and urban planning into his videogames.

3. The polymath Doyle tried to kill off Holmes at the turn of the century, but public outcry encouraged the author to resuscitate the archetypal detective in 1901's The Hound of the Baskervilles.

4. Leonardo Da Vinci was an Italian polymath who was probably the first European to seek a practical solution to flight.

5. To call him a polymath would be a gross understatement.

6. Miller is a brilliant polymath and he has trounced his rivals by thinking differently.

7. He was a formidable polymath, doing important work in mathematics, physics, logic, the study of formal and natural languages, and many other disciplines.

8. His ebullient personality is a vivid reminder of the polymath of past times.

9. If Charles I owned a real Leonardo before he was executed in 1649, this means our national love affair with the Renaissance polymath has been going on for almost 400 years.

10. He who seize the right moment, is the right man. ---Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer and polymath.

11. He is the happiest, be he king or peasant, who find peace in his home---Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer and polymath.

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12. Mr English, an associate editor of the Guardian, is a polymath who wears his learning lightly.

13. One of Mr Ball's heroes is Sir D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, a Scottish biologist and polymath, who in 1917 wrote "On Growth and Form".

14. For a very good reason: he is the greatest artist who ever lived. Still, the amount of news that can be generated about a long-dead polymath is startling.

15. They are in thrall not to John Maynard Keynes, sage of the Depression, but to his Cambridge contemporary, Frank Ramsey, a precocious polymath who made his contributions in the prelapsarian 1920s.

16. Genius is formed in quiet, character in the stream of life---Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer and polymath.

17. Could Mr Gaddis, who admits that he speaks no foreign languages, get on top of the mountain of material and do credit to such an international polymath?

18. BinaryWang: He who seize the right moment, is the right man. ---Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer and polymath.