Yusuf Qaradawi is probably the most well-known legal authority in the whole Muslim world today.
Do not ask if a man has been through college; ask if a college has been through him; if he is a walking university.
Personally I discovered that you could go through the academy as a young scholar, come out, and almost immediately have an impact on the academic environment.
It was at the graduate school at Columbia University that I first met Wesley C. Mitchell, with whom I was associated for many years at the National Bureau of Economic Research and to whom I owe a great intellectual debt.
To live without having a Cicero and a Tacitus at hand seems to me as if it was aprivation of one of my limbs.
The John F. Kennedy Institute of Politics was originally intended to bring scholars and politicians into closer contact, on the assumption that other office-holders can use academics as profitably as Kennedy did during his political career.
My love of books - not just of their tactile pleasures but of their astonishing variety - was born in a book-filled house; my father is a scholar.
It is a general truth that students of language in every era try to colonize some or all of the other human sciences.
