The Babson Institute, which is now an actual university, was started by this guy [my father] who also had a problem with… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
As a kid, I was getting information in areas that no one else was getting. I think that was one of the… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
Stephen Hawking won [Babson Institute competition ] one year with his black hole stuff. It's keeping an open mind on whether gravity… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
Walter C. Wright has a more cogent presentation than my father did about [gravity] being a push. But he had the same… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
I would say [to my father], "Why don't you actually take some courses in physics instead of saying [you are not believing… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
You know, in the suburbs, most people believe in gravity, but they don't have much of a sense of humor. — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
My father would conclude his dissertations by saying, "Of course, [Albert] Einstein never believed in gravity. It was a distortion of space."… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
I met a guy who had the same theory and wrote a book about it. His name is Walter C. Wright Jr.… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
[My father] had this quirky thing of not believing in gravity. And giving me a constant headache about that one. He would… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
To have that radical a mind in that bourgeois-looking body was really hard for a lot of people to take, because, when… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
[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 Image
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 Image
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