Polymaths want to know everything — but ‘everything’ isn’t what it used to be October 2, 2020 More than 4 years ago Renaissance painter, scientist and inventor Leonardo da Vinci was one of ...

People With ‘Too Many Interests’ More Likely to be Successful, According to Research The most comprehensive case that has ever been made for why nearly everyone should become a polymath in a ...

Ken Burns: I think Sarah is right that this focus on nature and relentlessly questioning everything, it makes him see that it was necessary to know everything about the human body, the circulatory ...

ARISTOTLE, of course, was the “last man to know everything” – everything useful to know about the world during his lifetime. No wait, it was Leonardo da Vinci. Or was it Goethe, or his ...

The word “polymath” teeters somewhere between Leo­nardo da Vinci and Stephen Fry. Embracing both one of history’s great intellects and a brainy actor, writer, director and TV personality ...