Award-winning astrophysicist and one of the world’s best-known scientists, Neil deGrasse Tyson, who is popularly known from his role in demoting Pluto from the status of a planet, has urged global governments to invest in pure science. He said that governments should invest more in research as scientific knowledge expands and new vistas open up.

He said that it is important to invest in field of science like physics and not just in applied science. He spoke about discovery of quantum physics and the impact it has on out scientific advancement and how it is the foundation of the information technology revolution. He said that such advancements would have been impossible without the discovery.

Tyson is a superstar personality from the field of astrophysics, has more than four million followers on Twitter and is regularly seen with superstar comedians, Tyson, author of The Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of America’s Favorite Planet, said that he is looking forward to be at dark spaces in Australia to absorb the sky, away from the city’s light pollution.

He works as the Director of the Hayden Planetarium in New York.