cosmos a spacetime odyssey neil degrasse tyson

He told Parade Magazinethat 'when you have a cosmic perspective, when you know how large the universe is and how small we are within it-what Earth looks like from space, how tiny it is in a cosmic void-it’s impossible for you to say, 'I so don’t like how you think that I’m going to kill you for it.' You will never find scientists leading armies into battle. Everyone blames the scientists.'Įarlier this year, Tyson went further, implying that scientists' view of nature actually makes them averse to war. There was a political action that called for it. In his reply, Tyson seemed to absolve scientists of responsibility for their research: 'When you part the curtains, at the bottom of all that, there's a politician funding that research… We have scientists who invented the bomb, yes, but somebody had to pay for the bomb, and that was taxpayers. In 2011 comedian Stephen Colbert, who has a knack for posing tough questions in goofy guise, asked Tyson whether scientists deserve to be depicted in movies as bad guys, who 'lead us to the Terminator or… create the superbug that wipes out the world.' And yet he is so focused on celebrating science that he seems loath to delve into linkages-historic and current-between science and war. Tyson, director of the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History, is already one of the most prominent science communicators in the world. I also hope Neil deGrasse Tyson, host of the new series, uses his star power to ignite a much-needed debate about the militarization of American science I hope Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey is a smash hit when it debuts Sunday night, as much so as the 1980 Cosmos hosted by astrophysicist Carl Sagan.

Cosmos a spacetime odyssey neil degrasse tyson