I try not to do professionally what I know others already do well, reserving my time for things that, perhaps, I’m uniquely qualified to do, or that nobody else is doing. When you line up the likes of Shermer, Plait, Randi, Krauss, Nickell, & Pugliucci, the skeptics movement is in excellent hands. When you assemble the likes of Dawkins, Harris, Hitchens, Dennett, Stenger, & Weinberg, the front lines of reason are well defended… So instead, I focus on things like science & math literacy, our future in space, the education system, and specifically the glory of astrophysics. So every time I’m pulled away to publicly discuss religion or skepticism (as a point of view unto itself, rather than as a byproduct of being scientifically literate) then places that would otherwise get my attention are left untended to.

Neil deGrasse Tyson