yep, that is a good book, enormous amount of research, well written, plenty of references...
I lifted these quotes from pages 412ff (for those who might miss your link):
"This is the daunting task that Velikovsky and those of us who support his approach and methods must face."
"The idea of recent cosmic catastrophes seems to have arrived at long last. The evidence of Comet Shoemaker-Levy's impacts on Jupiter is stunning evidence that has catapulted the concept upon the consciousness of modern science."
"Some astronomers now present the concept that the Ice Age and the extinction of the mega fauna came about as the result of cosmic catastrophes, and that the ancient world's myths give corroborating support for this thesis, as well as evidence of other cosmic upheavals and conflagrations."
"The evidence that may come out of such a debate would be invaluable to those of us who have been investigating these concepts for some years."
"Of course, Velikovsky will probably still be shunned while his thesis is presented in other garbs."
"Velikovsky's numerous critics and others who will deny to their dying day the value of mythic evidence will be turning over in their graves if such a major debate over these events unfolds."
"But that is just what is beginning to happen."
"Philosopher of science Paul Feyerabend explicitly shows that Velikovsky's revolutionary concepts are really no different from an historical-philosophical point of view than that of Copernicus.
". . . the experts declared the doctrine [of the motion of the Earth that Galileo upheld] to be ‘foolish and absurd in philosophy' or, to use the modern term, they declared it to be unscientific."
"This judgment was made without reference to the faith, or to church doctrine, but was based exclusively on the scientific situation of the time."
"It was shared by many outstanding scientists. Tycho Brahe having been one of them. . . ."
"Compared with those facts, theories, and standards, the idea of the motion of the earth was absurd as were Velikovsky's ideas when compared with the facts, theories, and standards of the fifties."
"A modern scientist . . . cannot cling to his own strict standard [of evidence] and at the same time praise Galileo for defending Copernicus."
"The fundamental arguments raised against Velikovsky's catastrophic theory from the very beginning have always been based on the conceptual systems of the scientists that excluded global poleshifts in recent times..."