Worlds in Collision (Rare, 1950)

With this book Immanuel Velikovsky first presented the revolutionary results of his 10-year-long interdisciplinary research to the public, founded modern catastrophism – based on eyewitness reports by our ancestors – shook the doctrine of uniformity of geology as well as Darwin’s theory of evolution, put our view of the history of our solar system, of the Earth and of humanity on a completely new basis – and caused an uproar that is still going on today.

”Harmony or stability in the celestial and terrestrial spheres is the point of departure of the present-day concept of the world as expressed in the celestial mechanics of Newton and the theory of evolution of Darwin. If these two men of science are sacrosanct, this book is a heresy. However, modern physics is a dramatic change in the microcosm, the atom, the prototype of the solar system; a theory then, that imagines dissimilar events in the macrocosm, the solar system, brings the concepts of physics to the celestial sphere.
This book is written for the instructed and uninstructed alike. No formula and no hieroglyphic will stand in the way of those who set out to read it. 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, Preface to ”Worlds in Collision”

”I was compelled by logic and by evidence to penetrate into so many premises of the house of science. I admit to repeated fires, though the candle in my hands was carried only for illumination.”

Immanuel Velikovsky

”I consider the Velikovsky incident a twentieth-century example of what happened to Galileo when church authorities forced him to recant his findings, or in general of what may happen to anyone who advances a hypothesis too extraordinary for the times he or she lives in. It seems to matter not whether the hypothesis is right or wrong, but only that it is completely unacceptable to the ‘authorities’ of the times for it to provoke an unscientific response.”

Tom Van Flandern, Dark Matter, Missing Planets and New Comets, 1999, p. 357