director of the hayden planetarium in new york and tonight fox will be premiering his series "cosmos." a prime time network television show about science. pretty amazing. neil, welcome to the program. >> thanks for having me. >> i want to talk all about "cos mos" in a moment but do you think there is a war on science and how do you think we can broker a peace? >> our civilization, our civilization is built on the innovations of scientists and technologists and engineers who have shaped everything that we so take for granted today. so some of the science deniers or haters, these are people telling you, while they're on their mobile phone, they're saying, i don't like science. science is -- oh, gps just told us to go left. yeah. okay. so i don't -- so it's time for people to sort of sit back and reassess what role science has actually played in our lives and note and learn how to embrace