Neil deGrasse Tyson:

I don't have a problem with people believing in God. I have a problem with people who believe in God and use that as an excuse to be ignorant.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson Contemporary

Astrophysicist, science communicator

Interview on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

2015

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