Astrophysics for People in a Hurry

I love Neil deGrasse Tyson's passion and enthusiasm. It's wonderful to listen to him read his book. He really finds astrophysics beautiful, amazing and awesome and manages to convey it. I'm at awe by the magnificence of... all this. Physics, science, people who figured all this out... Absolutely wonderful.

I also love the nods to the popular culture :-) It was very easy to listen, with all the humor inserted.

BUT

“What happened before all this? What happened before the beginning? Astrophysicists have no idea. Or, rather, our most creative ideas have little or no grounding in experimental science. In response, some religious people assert, with a tinge of righteousness, that something must have started it all: a force greater than all others, a source from which everything issues. A prime mover. In the mind of such a person, that something is, of course, God.”