A thought on passing the torch

“Science is a co-operative enterprise, spanning the generations. It’s the passing of a torch from teacher, to student, to teacher. A community of minds reaching back to antiquity and forward to the stars.”
— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Neil deGrasse Tyson remains a voice of clarity in a weird time. We live in a time when expertise is now often dismissed; when attaining knowledge is confused with “doing my own research” and ignoring science in favour of comforting beliefs.

Tyson inherited the mantle of Carl Sagan when the groundbreaking series Cosmos was followed in 2014 by Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey. Have a peek at this episode.

An heir to Carl Sagan and himself now one of the best-known scientists in the world, Tyson in this video explains why he’s prepared to do things like appear on funny talk shows to help elevate scientific knowledge: