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 experiment, and therefore laws must conform with historical facts, not facts with laws.”

“A creator is not a polisher.”

“The collective amnesia of the survivors is the most sinister of all the results of the catastrophe.”

“My work is not cosmology, but it is about the history of the solar system.”

“The stability of the solar system is a fiction of the astronomers.”

“Ignorance is bliss, but in the face of a cosmic danger, ignorance is a mortal peril.”

“I came to the conclusion that man has a repressed memory of a world catastrophe, and the revolt against this memory is a major force in human history.”

“All will be deniers, not because they are evil, but because they are human.”

“The accepted celestial mechanics is in conflict with the facts of the solar system.”

“The nearer the time of a catastrophe, the more people are engaged in trivialities.”

“On the occasion of a world catastrophe, the survivor is not a hero, but a witness.”

“A book is not a book unless it is a book of some controversy.”