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Words of Desiderius Erasmus, on the scholarly (not to say scholastic) impulse in himself and his fellow humanists: "Live as if you are going to die tomorrow. Study as if you were going to live forever."

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As for the London humanists, Thomas More was the first writer in English to use the word anarchos to describe political disorder.

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In The Life of Thomas More by Peter Ackroyd, I found this definition of medieval scholasticism, a citation of William Stubbs, 19th century historian and bishop: "'Truth is one and indivisible' and that a scholar's task lay 'in reconciling all existing knowledge logically with the One Truth' using 'laws or formulae.'"

So modern physicists questing for a "grand unified theory" that would tie together relativity and quantum mechanics are basically modern versions of medieval scholastics. Stephen Hawking nee Duns Scotus.