Noun
a person of great and varied learning
Source: WordNetThat fabulous polymath Samuel Johnson maintained that no man in his right mind ever read a book through from beginning to end. Daniel Bell
I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up. Karl Kraus
Polyglot, polymath and mythomane. Anthony Burgess
I once heard Susan Sontag, in conversation with Umberto Eco, define the polymath as one "who is interested in everything, and in nothing else.”. Christopher Hitchens
As polymath While making his grand tour of European archives to research the Brunswick family history that he never completed, Leibniz stopped in Vienna between May 1688 and February 1689, where he did much legal and diplomatic work for the Brunswicks. Source: Internet
A professor of geography at UCLA and noted polymath, Diamond's work has been influential in the fields of anthropology, biology, ornithology, ecology and history, among others. Source: Internet