Dedicated Quotes by Paul Laffoley

I first heard of [Orfeo Angelucci] from Giuseppe Conti who gave me some books by him.

— Paul Laffoley

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[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

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