He thought he was smart, and wanted to have a collection of high-powered academics on hand to tell him how smart he was. It really could be as simple as that- h

He thought he was smart, and wanted to have a collection of high-powered academics on hand to tell him how smart he was. It really could be as simple as that- he was a narcissist. Of course he'd want to be known as "billionaire philanthropist and renaissance man".