Immanuel Velikovsky
Immanuel Velikovsky
Immanuel Velikovskywas 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. Earlier, he played a role in the founding of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel, and was a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst...
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth10 June 1895
CityVitebsk, Belarus
faces facts ability
Don't be afraid to face the facts, and never lose your ability to ask the questions: Why? and How?
two research enthusiasm
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, two for a nickel, and could not buy a fountain pen, when I lost mine.
father teaching way-in-life
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.
father names firsts
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 verse of the seventh chapter of Isaiah; there was no Immanuel among our ancestors known to him.