Richard Dawkins said he was "one of the greatest orators of all time", and called him "a polymath, a wit... and a valiant fighter against all tyrants including imaginary supernatural ones".
People were calling him a polymath and they weren't even being sarcastic.
Charles's obituaries call him a "polymath," a "scholar-musician;" they laud his "ferocious intelligence," his "all-around brilliance".
His manager, Robert Rattray at Askonos Holt, calls him a "polymath" and runs through the composers in which he is expert: Bach, Handel, Mozart, Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, Mahler, Beethoven, Verdi, Janacek, Martinu, Strauss, Wagner, Britten.
Weinberg calls Kim "a polymath," able to master the many different subfields of modern biology.
You could call him a polymath of extraordinary talent and vision, or an innovator of incredible aesthetic reach, but he's happy with the more modest moniker commercial artist.
This mystic Roman Catholic polymath endorsed a kind of world-soul (thus embracing what Hartshorne called a synecological form of panpsychism) which he called the "noosphere" and urged that the old conception of matter and mind be replaced with a new notion of "matter-spirit".
Each year, Boggs, a Cuban-born fifty-six-year-old polymath, administers what he calls a "general knowledge" test — he avoids the term "trivia" — to the roughly one hundred law-school graduates he is considering for his clerkships.
The New Yorker called him, 'A restless polymath and an irresistibly funny storyteller, he is adept at fiction, essay, and reportage, but happiest when twisting all three into something entirely his own' Last year I was asked if I would be interested in travelling to French Polynesia to write about Gauguin and the lure of the exotic in commemoration of the centenary of his death in May 2003.
