Urges to deny facts that conflict w/ your politics or religion thwart efforts to embrace reality & make a better world for it
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) April 11, 2013
What's next in America -- A movement to denounce the theory of gravity because it makes people heavy?You know as hard as it is for the rest of us to watch our education system held hostage by the superstitious and ignorant, imagine just how MUCH worse it must be for somebody like Neil deGrasse-Tyson.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) April 11, 2013