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.…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Paul Laffoley

The Babson Institute, which is now an actual university, was started by this guy [my father] who also had a problem with…

— Paul Laffoley

As a kid, I was getting information in areas that no one else was getting. I think that was one of the…

— Paul Laffoley

Stephen Hawking won [Babson Institute competition ] one year with his black hole stuff. It's keeping an open mind on whether gravity…

— 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?…

— 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,…

— Paul Laffoley

From the time of Dante [Alighieri], when you have the Ptolemaic universe, you had God on the outside like a hypersphere, and…

— Paul Laffoley

Walter C. Wright has a more cogent presentation than my father did about [gravity] being a push. But he had the same…

— Paul Laffoley

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

I began to analyze the movie [The Day the Earth Stood Still] and said it was really made out of these two…

— Paul Laffoley

When [my father] reached his majority, he was the head of the family. Everybody depended upon him. He went into a very…

— Paul Laffoley

Forms of energy from nature gave my father trouble. He refused to believe he was going to die. He had these weird…

— Paul Laffoley

I began to research the concept of dimensionality from the point of view of quality, and not just quantity, as a mathematician…

— Paul Laffoley

I was born rather late in [my father's] life, in his mid - 40s. And so what he did up until the…

— Paul Laffoley

Long John I think went off the air in about '79 or something, so there was a hiatus. That's why I think…

— Paul Laffoley

[Nikola Tesla] said he had no interest in the spiritual. He didn't believe in telepathy, didn't believe in any of that stuff,…

— Paul Laffoley

[Buckminster Fuller] could do four, five hours straight where some people would leave, eat, get a snooze and come back and he's…

— Paul Laffoley

I mean, even New York isn't in any great shape anymore in relation to the rest of the world.

— Paul Laffoley

[Nikola Tesla] would do it through lucid dreaming. He would, in a sense, dream up the engine, forget about it, come back,…

— Paul Laffoley

We would go on retreats to Florence. The people in the planning team got to be good friends and so we did…

— Paul Laffoley