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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.

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 or tens of thousands of years, but the imminent future, on whose threshold we now stand.

Immanuel Velikovsky

Imagination coupled with skepticism and an ability to wonder — if you possess these, bountiful nature will hand you some of the secrets out of her inexhaustible store. The pleasure you will experience in discovering truth will repay you for your work; don't expect other compensation, because it may not come.

Immanuel Velikovsky

Immanuel Velikovsky

Immanuel Velikovsky

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Born: June 10, 1895

Died: November 17, 1979 (aged 84)

Bio: Immanuel Velikovsky was a Russian-Jewish independent scholar best known as the author of a number of controversial books reinterpreting the events of ancient history, in particular the US bestseller Worlds in Collision published in 1950.

Known for:

Worlds in Collision (1950)
Ages in Chaos (1952)
Earth in Upheaval (1955)
Mankind in amnesia
Stargazers and Gravediggers

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