thinker

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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

It’s a stalemate that even a clever strategist would struggle mightily to resolve, and there is no evidence that Vance is an especially strategic thinker.

From Salon • Apr. 27, 2026

Mr. Sewell is first-rate on the development of Dulles’s foreign-policy philosophy and shows him to be a far more subtle thinker than is often understood.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026

They complemented one another: Stanton, the thinker, was burdened with family responsibilities; Anthony, the organizer, was a master at the logistics of executing petition campaigns and planning events.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling