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 invent it, he just put it all in one package. You get twelve fat books there… — 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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