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.(他們不僅臣服于大蕭條的圣人約翰?梅納德?凱恩斯，還崇拜同時代一個天才的博學之士、劍橋大學的弗蘭克·拉姆賽，他對1920年代的elapsarian做出貢獻。)

He who seize the right moment, is the right man. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer and polymath.(誰把握機遇，誰就心想事成---約翰·沃爾夫岡。馮。歌德，德國作家和學者。)

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".(波爾書中的主角之一是蘇格蘭生物學家、分子數學家達西·溫特沃斯·湯姆遜，他在1917年寫了《關于生長和形成》。)

Alexander recognized that, as the great polymath Herbert Simon pointed out, design is a kind of transformation, "from existing conditions to preferred ones".(亞歷山大認識到設計是種轉化，這點偉大而博學的HerbertSimon也提出過，“從現存條件到最佳條件”。)

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，杰倫?拉尼爾說，杰倫?拉尼爾是一個科技家，音樂家，一個極其博學的人，尤其以其在虛擬現實的先驅者而聞名。)

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為，而不是時間。—約翰·盧伯克，英國博學家。)

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個世紀前，博學多才的克里斯托弗·雷恩爵士曾預言道：“當人類發現類地球行星時，人類開闊眼界的時候就來臨了。”)

IN 1874 Francis Galton, a British polymath, analysed a sample of English scientists and found the vast majority to be first-born sons.(1984年一個英國博學者弗朗西斯·高爾頓，分析了英國科學家的樣本，發現其中絕大多數是長子。)

In this, one hopes that the great polymath was wrong.(在這點上，有人希望這個大師錯了。)

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.(這是基于一個好理由：他是人類歷史上最杰出的藝術家，即便如此，圍繞這樣一位去世已久的博物學家所產生的新聞數目之多仍然令人瞠目。)