Neil deGrasse Tyson on Stephen Colbert

"Science is sometimes distrusted because it is more complex than the average  person can understand. I think that is the core of it the distrust is not because of what it can do but because of what it can do. And that .. absence of understanding or misunderstanding of the power of science is what makes people afraid of it and so i remember back when they first split the atom you know "shouldn't split the atom" or shouldn't .. you hear this at every discovery that happens in science, there's is a mystery to it."

- Neil deGrasse Tyson

Watch the whole thing - Tyson is much better than any of the contemporary standup comedians !!