thinker

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Thomas Jefferson, the Declaration’s lead author, regarded the English political thinker John Locke as one of the three greatest men who ever lived.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 2, 2026

Influential iconoclastic thinker Richard Dawkins was then pilloried for suggesting that perhaps it already has.

From Slate • May 25, 2026

For more than 500 years, Leonardo da Vinci has been admired as a brilliant artist, inventor, and thinker whose talents seemed far ahead of his time.

From Science Daily • May 4, 2026

In chat logs we have seen, ChatGPT told him he was a "revolutionary thinker" and urged him to build the app.

From BBC • May 2, 2026

He was the only thinker of his day to glimpse the infinite.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife