So I was going to include some cool interviews that deGrasse Tyson has done, and maybe some clips from his shows, but Youtube is still not working right since it was hacked into yesterday (at least that's what I heard happened). So no clips, but here are some segments from various articles he's written over the years:
In the Beginning:
Daily life, we're happy to report, is wholly devoid of extreme physics. On a normal morning, you get out of bed, wander around the house, eat something, dash out the front door. And, by day's end your loved ones fully expect you to look no different than you did when you left, and to return home in one piece. But imagine arriving at the office, walking into an overheated conference room for an important 10:00 a.m. meeting, and suddenly losing all your electrons—or worse yet, having every atom of your body fly apart. Or suppose you're sitting in your office trying to get some work done by the light of your desk lamp, and somebody flicks on the overhead light, causing your body to bounce randomly from wall to wall until you're jack-in-the-boxed out the window. Or what if you went to a sumo wrestling match after work and saw the two spherical gentlemen collide, disappear, then spontaneously become two beams of light?
The Perimeter of Ignorance:
Writing in centuries past, many scientists felt compelled to wax poetic about cosmic mysteries and God's handiwork. Perhaps one should not be surprised at this: most scientists back then, as well as many scientists today, identify themselves as spiritually devout.
But a careful reading of older texts, particularly those concerned with the universe itself, shows that the authors invoke divinity only when they reach the boundaries of their understanding. They appeal to a higher power only when staring into the ocean of their own ignorance. They call on God only from the lonely and precarious edge of incomprehension. Where they feel certain about their explanations, however, God gets hardly a mention.
And if you really want to read something that sends shivers down your spine, read his first-hand account of 9/11, The Horror, The Horror. (He has an apartment in lower Manhattan)
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