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  • I'm often asked -- and occasionally in an accusatory way -- "Are you atheist?" And it's

  • like, you know, the only "ist" I am is a scientist, all right? I don't associate with movements.

  • I'm not an "ism." I just - I think for myself. The moment when someone attaches to a philosophy

  • or a movement, then they assign all the baggage and all the rest of the philosophy that goes

  • with it to you, and when you want to have a conversation they will assert that they

  • already know everything important there is to know about you because of that association.

  • And that's not the way to have a conversation. I'm sorry. It's not. I'd rather we explore

  • each other's ideas in real time rather than assign a label to it and assert, you know,

  • what's going to happen in advance.

  • So what people are really after is, what is my stance on religion or spirituality or God?

  • And I would say, if I find a word that came closest it would be agnostic. Agnostic -- the

  • word dates from the 19th century -- Huxley -- to refer to someone who doesn't know but

  • hasn't yet really seen evidence for it but is prepared to embrace the evidence if it's

  • there but if it's not won't be forced to have to think something that is not otherwise supported.

  • There are many atheists who say, "Well, all agnostics are atheists." Okay. I'm constantly

  • claimed by atheists. I find this intriguing. In fact, on my Wiki page -- I didn't create

  • the Wiki page, others did, and I'm flattered that people cared enough about my life to

  • assemble it -- and it said, "Neil deGrasse is an atheist." I said, "Well that's not really

  • true." I said, "Neil deGrasse is an agnostic." I went back a week later. It said, "Neil deGrasse

  • is an atheist." -- again within a week -- and I said, "What's up with that?" and I said,

  • "I have to word it a little differently." So I said, okay, "Neil deGrasse, widely claimed

  • by atheists, is actually an agnostic."

  • And some will say, well, that's -- "You're not being fair to the fact that they're actually

  • the same thing." No, they're not the same thing, and I'll tell you why. Atheists I know

  • who proudly wear the badge are active atheists. They're like in your face atheist and they

  • want to change policies and they're having debates. I don't have the time, the interest,

  • the energy to do any of that. I'm a scientist. I'm an educator. My goal is to get people

  • thinking straight in the first place, just get you to be curious about the natural world.

  • That's what I'm about. I'm not about any of the rest of this.

  • And it's odd that the word atheist even exists. I don't play golf. Is there a word for non-golf

  • players? Do non-golf players gather and strategize? Do non-skiers have a word and come together

  • and talk about the fact that they don't ski? I don't—I can't do that. I can't gather

  • around and talk about how much everybody in the room doesn't believe in God. I just don't—I

  • don't have the energy for that, and so I . . . Agnostic separates me from the conduct of atheists

  • whether or not there is strong overlap between the two categories, and at the end of the

  • day I'd rather not be any category at all.

I'm often asked -- and occasionally in an accusatory way -- "Are you atheist?" And it's

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Neil deGrasse Tyson:無神論者或不可知論者? (Neil deGrasse Tyson: Atheist or Agnostic?)

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