Stand-up is the foundation to my career. It's what I started out doing.
There are a lot of legislators who are afraid that kids will learn science and lose their faith.
90% of the mass in your body comes from empty space.
The ultimate arbiter of truth is experiment, not the comfort one derives from one's a priori beliefs, nor the beauty or elegance one ascribes to one's theoretical models.
We now know that we are more insignificant than we ever imagined. If you get rid of everything we see, the universe is essentially the same. We constitute a 1 percent bit of pollution in a universe. . . we are completely irrelevant.
The amazing thing is that every atom in your body came from a star that exploded.
The illusion of purpose and design is perhaps the most pervasive illusion about nature that science has to confront on a daily basis.
For me, being a woman suits what I want to talk about and what my audience wants to hear. Maybe I'm a dying breed.
There are two kinds of people, there's those who like Johnny Cash, and those that will.
Breathing is meditation; life is a meditation. You have to breathe in order to live, so breathing is how you get in touch with the sacred space of your heart.
All the remedies for all the types of conflicts are alike in that they begin by finding the facts rather than by starting a fight.