In this, one hopes that the great polymath was wrong.

在这点上，有人希望这个大师错了。

To call him a polymath would be a gross understatement.

说他是一个博物学家，那全是一个低估。

Life is measured by thought and action, not by time. -john Lubbock, English polymath.

衡量生命的尺度是思想和行为，而不是时间。—约翰·卢伯克，英国博学家。

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

米勒聪明、博学，用不同的思维方式打败了对手。

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

谁把握机遇，谁就心想事成- - -约翰·沃尔夫冈。冯。歌德，德国作家和学者。

Kennedy warrants praise for the breadth of these polymath ambitions, aided though he was by five research assistants.

尽管肯尼迪有五个助手帮助，他仍以其博大的志向而受到称赞。

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

意大利饱学之士李奥纳多·达·文西可能是欧洲第一个寻求飞行实际解决之法的人。

After discussion with the Polymath administrator, I have concluded that her method for picking winners is reasonably random.

在与“博学者”管理人讨论后，我得出的结论是，她挑选获奖者的方式基本能够保证结果的随机性。

FOR the past century mathematicians have struggled to prove the conjecture of a late-19th-century French polymath, Henri poincare.

19世纪晚期的法国博学家亨利·庞加莱(Henri poincare)提出了一个猜想，结果数学家们为之奋斗了整整一个世纪。

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

不管他是国王还是农夫，只要家庭和睦，他便是最幸福的人- - -约翰·沃尔夫冈。冯。歌德，德国作家和学者。

No, says Jaron Lanier, a technologist, musician and polymath who is best known for his pioneering work in the field of virtual reality.

有什么好，杰伦•拉尼尔说，杰伦•拉尼尔是一个科技家，音乐家，一个极其博学的人，尤其以其在虚拟现实的先驱者而闻名。

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”.

波尔先生所敬慕的人中有一位是达可•温沃斯•汤姆逊爵士，一位学识广博的苏格兰生物学家。 1917年，他写了《生长成形论》。

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".

波尔书中的主角之一是苏格兰生物学家、分子数学家达西·温特沃斯·汤姆逊，他在1917年写了《关于生长和形成》。

IN 1874 Francis Galton, a British polymath, analysed a sample of English scientists and found the vast majority to be first-born sons.

1984年一个英国博学者弗朗西斯·高尔顿，分析了英国科学家的样本，发现其中绝大多数是长子。

The informal estimate of the Polymath team is that the proportion of foreign winners is roughly in line with the proportion of foreign subscribers.

“博学者”团队的非正式估计是，外国获奖者的比例大致等同于外国订阅者的比例。

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?

坦承不会外语的盖迪斯能否掌握全部的材料，为这样一位享誉国际的饱学之士争光？

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?

承认自己不懂外语的约翰·加迪斯，能否征服堆积如山的资料，为乔治·凯南这样的国际大家赢得赞颂？

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

他是一个强大的博学，做数学，物理学，逻辑学的重要工作，正式和自然语言的研究，以及许多其他学科。

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.

这是基于一个好理由：他是人类历史上最杰出的艺术家，即便如此，围绕这样一位去世已久的博物学家所产生的新闻数目之多仍然令人瞠目。

Alexander recognized that, as the great polymath Herbert Simon pointed out, design is a kind of transformation, "from existing conditions to preferred ones".

亚历山大认识到设计是种转化，这点伟大而博学的Herbert Simon也提出过，“从现存条件到最佳条件”。

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.

若查理一世在1649年被处决前拥有一幅达·芬奇真迹，那意味着我们国家和达·芬奇这位文艺复兴时的博学家有过近400年的渊源。

THREE centuries have passed since the polymath Sir Christopher Wren predicted that “a time will come when men will stretch out their eyes—they should see planets like our Earth.”

在3个世纪前，博学多才的克里斯托弗·雷恩爵士曾预言道：“当人类发现类地球行星时，人类开阔眼界的时候就来临了。”

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.

他们不仅臣服于大萧条的圣人约翰?梅纳德?凯恩斯，还崇拜同时代一个天才的博学之士、剑桥大学的弗兰克·拉姆赛，他对1920年代的elapsarian 做出贡献。