“ Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure science. —Edwin P. Hubble (1889–1953), The Nature of Science” (Tyson, 161) Neil deGrasse Tyson is an astrophysicist and has written many different essays including “Coming To our Senses.” In “Coming to our Senses” Tyson explains how our senses are important, but there are limitations to them so we cannot rely only on them to be objective. Also, how we need to use the technology around us to be totally objective. To connect to his information to the general public Tyson uses multiple different rhetorical devices. Neil deGrasse Tyson uses rhetorical questions, allusions, and ethos to effectively get his information to his audience. Neil deGrasse Tyson uses rhetorical question to help get his message to his audience. By asking a question like “What, if anything, lies beyond our senses?” (Tyson, 162). Tyson can connect to the audience more by actually interacting with them. Also, by asking more in depth questions like “ Does there exist a way of knowing that transcends our biological interfaces with the environment?”(Tyson, 162) it makes the reader actually think and connect more to the essay. If…show more content… One way his credibility is established is by being an expert on the topic. Tyson is “An American astrophysicist and the director of the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History” (Tyson, 161). By being an expert on the topic it makes him easier to trust and listen to, since he knows what he is talking about. Also, by mentioning other scientists such as, “The twentieth-century German physicist Max Planck” (Tyson, 166) it shows that another expert who is credible agrees with what he is saying. By showing credibility it makes readers listen and retain the information more since it is said by
