Neil deGrasse Tyson

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"I pity the fool who still refers to Pluto as the ninth planet."

Neil deGrasse Tyson is an astrophysicist and a vocal public champion of science. He survived public schools before going on to earn a BA in physics from Harvard and a PhD in astrophysics from Columbia.[1] Tyson was instrumental in downgrading Pluto to dwarf planet status.

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[edit] On television

Tyson is currently the host of the show NOVA scienceNOW on PBS, which discusses recent topics in science.[2] He is scheduled to host a sequel to Carl Sagan's Cosmos: A Personal Voyage, which will broadcast in 2013.[3]

He has also made frequent appearances as a guest on popular television shows, including The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, and Real Time with Bill Maher.

[edit] Religion

Despite frequent claims that he is an atheist,[4] Tyson professes to being an agnostic.[5] Blasphemy!

However, he still professes methodological materialism as necessary to scientific advancement:

The day you stop looking because you’re content God did it, I don’t need you in the lab. You’re useless on the frontier of understanding the nature of the world.
—Responding to a rather famous mouthspewing from Bill O'Reilly.[6]

[edit] Watch out guys, we're dealing with a badass over here!

Tyson is well-loved by the Internet, and is the driving force behind a popular meme.[7] This was his reaction.

He is also all over the utubez. We will leave it up to you to copy and paste his name there.

[edit] See also

[edit] External links

[edit] Footnotes

  1. About Neil deGrasse Tyson. Hayden Planetarium.
  2. "About the Series Host." NOVA ScienceNOW. PBS.
  3. Matt Blum. "Cosmos Will Get a Sequel Hosted by Neil deGrasse Tyson." GeekDad. Wired. 2011 August 5.
  4. Including all of us here for over a year.
  5. Big Think. "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Atheist or Agnostic?" YouTube. 2012 April 25.
  6. [1]
  7. "Neil deGrasse Tyson Reaction." Know Your Meme.
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