Interestingly enough, his belief in spontaneous generation and that spontaneous generation was impossible wasn't fabricated, more like paraphrased with a conclusion drawn. He also stated that with enough time, the impossible could become virtually certain.
Having nothing to do with this specific discussion, I discovered that he thought war crimes was an invention of the U.S before the Nuremburg Trials and that having nuclear weapons as a deterrent was undesirable.
His rationale in more than one area is less than rational.
The quote, itself, was a fabrication. However, as I stated earlier it was something he certainly could have said . I knew him for a few months and he was a flaming commie and a hater of Israel (the "warts" of my earlier post). For a Jew I found that both disturbing and senseless. I believe he was a New York Jew and I have never understood why so many Jews are politically on the opposite side from what it seems they should be, especially those in the liberal Northeast. I am often left with the impression after discussions with these people that they feel guilty about something, but I can't identify it.
Perhaps some of our Jewish freepers can enlighten me about this.