Immanuel Velikovsky Quotes

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. - Immanuel Velikovsky Quotes

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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 mother among them, and the group was slowly walking in the orchard, it seems toward the house. - Immanuel Velikovsky Quotes

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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 Quotes

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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. - Immanuel Velikovsky Quotes

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On the day I was born, or possibly on one of the following days, my father went on a walk in the forested hills and thought of a name for me. His first son was called Daniel, and Samuel in memory of one of his forefathers. - Immanuel Velikovsky Quotes

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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 spoke to me of the faith he put in me. - Immanuel Velikovsky Quotes

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When my father reached the age of fourteen or fifteen, he heard the unseen horizons call, and felt an urge to seek greater goals. - Immanuel Velikovsky Quotes

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