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Synonyms for savant

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Synonyms for savant

a usually elderly person noted for wisdom, knowledge, and judgment

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Synonyms for savant

someone who has been admitted to membership in a scholarly field

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"Working with the Savants' is refreshing because they allow me to reuse and reinvent old objects and items in new and exciting ways," notes Kegler.
Osman a declare que la commission organise traditionnellement le petit dejeuner annuelle pour la consultation en matiere de religion, appelant les savants a l'importance a s'engager dans les activites de la Commission et de contribuer a la solution des problemes du pays.
Snyder said that he was inspired by the fact that music, art, mathematics are taken by many to be an exceptional ability in humans requiring laborious hours of study and training but a group of savants are able to do these things.
Though he was familiar with savants with certain similar skills, Dr Treffert said there was no direct mind reading case as such that has come to his notice.
Savant syndrome may provide additional support for the importance of general brain connectivity to poetry.
Les textes reunis dans Le Savoir des livres interrogent les notions de livre savant et de publication scientifique.
Nor do savants present unambiguous support for nature versions of talent development.
"Many savants predicted a hundred years ago that the immigrants of their day could never be assimilated," he writes in his recent book The New Americans (Regnery).
At a time when even our women's teams are working on the weights, we have to wonder what possesses the ancient mariners who still look upon our strength savants as professional weight-lifters and sit around waiting for the round mounds of flab like Babe Ruth and Fats Henry to come out of the woodwork and vindicate their theories about "genetic endowments" and "muscle binding."
From the savant we can "learn something about memory, intelligence, and creativity that applies not only to them, but to us as well," says Treffert, and learn how to "tap some of that buried capacity that I am convinced lies in each of us." By acquainting us with a few of the dozen or so savants living today and their families, Treffert passes on the lesson they provide about unconditional love and acceptance, and the miracles they can work.
Khartoum ,4 Mars (SUNA) - Le Corps pour defendre les musulmans en Afrique Centrale organisera mercredi soir au siege de la Commission a Khartoum un symposium sur la situation des musulmans dans la Republique centrafricaine en collaboration avec le corps de savants du Soudan.
Le Haut conseil islamique (HCI) du Mali a annonce, hier a Alger, son adhesion a la Ligue des imams et savants des pays du Sahel.
Summary: Grandfather of savants 'never seen' a case like Sharjah's Nandana, reports Sajila Saseendran