When I was a child of six or seven my father would show me the chapter in the prophet Isaiah where the name Immanuel is found; more than once he spok…

- Immanuel Velikovsky

My father felt that his world of ideas was too liberal for traditional rabbinical teachings, and he looked for a chance to find a way in life.

- Immanuel Velikovsky

And Venus must be hot if the history of the solar system is not the history of no change for billions of years. And Venus was found hot, not room tem…

- Immanuel Velikovsky

My earliest memory is dreamlike: in a small orchard or garden I am carried on the arm, I believe, of my father; there was a group of grown-ups, my mo…

- Immanuel Velikovsky

Don't be afraid to face the facts, and never lose your ability to ask the questions: Why? and How?

- Immanuel Velikovsky

If, occasionally, historical evidence does not square with formulated laws, it should be remembered that a law is but a deduction from experience and…

- Immanuel Velikovsky

My first name - I have no middle name - was chosen by my father, as he told me, on that solitary walk in the forested hills. He selected it from a ve…

- Immanuel Velikovsky

It is difficult to describe in short the enthusiasm and devotion provoked by and given to my research. We lived almost in poverty. I used pencils, tw…

- Immanuel Velikovsky

Mankind in Amnesia has to do not only with the past, like my other books -- primarily it has to do with the future, a future not removed by thousands…

- Immanuel Velikovsky