I would have private conversations with [Buckminster Fuller]. I once had an argument, for four hours, about the existence of the Mobius strip. Because he believed in the Klein Bottle, you see. And I said, "How in hell can you… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
The tetrahedron was [ Buckminster Fuller's] big thing. He'd talk about it in the same way Plato talked about angles. — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
I first heard of [Orfeo Angelucci] from Giuseppe Conti who gave me some books by him. — Paul Laffoley Copy Share
The whole thing that Dante [Alighieri] did was summed up in the medieval world. It's like St. Thomas Aquinas, the Summa Theologica. He didn't… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share
You know, Mick Jagger's "Sympathy for the Devil." I think it was inspired by that [H.P.Lovecraft stories]. You don't know who's reading what, you… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share
At 15 [my father] revolted against his father like any teenager, and said, "I'm out of here! What are you doing to me?" He… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share
At one time in the mid-'70s I became the president of the Boston-Cambridge chapter of the World Future Society. Because I'd been in my… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share
The Babson Institute, which is now an actual university, was started by this guy [my father] who also had a problem with believing in… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share
As a kid, I was getting information in areas that no one else was getting. I think that was one of the reasons my… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share
Stephen Hawking won [Babson Institute competition ] one year with his black hole stuff. It's keeping an open mind on whether gravity exists or… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share
I would say that it's probably impossible for a lot of people to even think what H.P. Lovecraft's theological state was. — Paul Laffoley Copy Share
My father was an extremely brilliant man. I consider him a genius, and so he probably could have joined Mensa. But why? I got… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share
[My father] was always saying I'd end up like my grandfather. Okay. My grandfather was an architect, I'm an architect. It's true, certain characteristics… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share
From the time of Dante [Alighieri], when you have the Ptolemaic universe, you had God on the outside like a hypersphere, and then in… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share
Walter C. Wright has a more cogent presentation than my father did about [gravity] being a push. But he had the same basic belief,… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share
I would say [to my father], "Why don't you actually take some courses in physics instead of saying [you are not believing in gravity]?"… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share
I began to analyze the movie [The Day the Earth Stood Still] and said it was really made out of these two characters [Nikola… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share
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