Polymath

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Literature

Age of Enlightenment

1749–1832

"Only mankind Can do the impossible: He can distinguish, He chooses and judges, He can give permanence To the moment."

🇫🇷René Descartes

Philosophy

rationalism

1596–1650

"The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries."

Leonardo da Vinci

Mathematics

Renaissance

1452–1519

"The false interpreters of nature declare that quicksilver is the common seed of every metal, not remembering that nature varies the seed according to the variety of the things she desires to produce in the world."

🇫🇷Henri Poincaré

Mathematics

1854–1912

"Poincare Contemplates Copernicus" at MathPages'"

Al-Biruni

Mathematics

973–1050

"The Hindus believe that there is no country but theirs. no nation like theirs, no king like theirs, no religion like theirs, no science like theirs."

Ahmad ibn Hanbal

Law

780–855

"'If the scholars remains silent the grounds of dissimulation , and the ignorant do not know, when will the truth be manifested?'"

🇲🇽Carlos Fuentes

Literature

1928–2012

"Can you imagine me coming to this country to blow up a post office? I told them, "My bombs are my books."