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Anyone sad they were born too late to be a polymath? We live now in the era of specialists. I'm coming to the end of my PhD studies and I have realised two things:
-I am an expert in my tiny slice of knowledge (A specific class of solutions to a specific class of non-linear PDEs)
-My breadth of knowledge hasn't really increased inthe past few years.
I don't know, I just wish I could do some maths, do some physics, do some philosophy, live in one of the great buildings in Oxford or Cambridge, go to daily prayers, have great feasts and debate with other great minds with wide interests and knowledge.
Just thinking about Newton. His Theology and Philosophy was mostly shit, but his Maths and Physics was great, he was also an MP at times, working for the government. Just imagining that life.
But no, I am a specialist. Such is modern society.
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There are plenty of polymaths, it's not that you can't be one, you're just dumb and that's okay sweetie.
How would I know this?
>published in biomolecular engineering, solid state inorganic chemistry, and international relations and foreign policy
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>>9217306
It is incredibly easy to become a polymath. Just study one thing in university and study another thing on the side (instead of shitposting).
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>>9217323
I was inspired by newton in college so I majored in Physics and studied philosophy as well. A lot of interesting crossover and it wasn't particularly difficult to publish in both fields.
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>>9217323
TIL "poly" means "two".
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>>9217318
>i published some bullshit in a few fields
>i am a polymath
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>>9217306
Read joseph mcelroy and tell me polymaths dont exist
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>>9218796
It certainly meant more than that for my ex gf haha ha haha
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>>9219186
Why did you agree to a polyamorous relationship if you weren't comfortable with your gf sleeping with other people?
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>>9217306
Surely Douglas Hofstadter is a living polymath. There's even a YouTube video about it.
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