Charlie McDonnell > Quotes

“Everything changes when a man becomes purple”
― Charlie McDonnell

“That dot is special. That dot is where LIFE lives. And I get it, it's biased of a living organism (like me) to think that life is important and special, but I don't care!
Because stars don't care, galaxies don't care, but people do.
Undoubtedly we're something special because, as far as we can tell, we are unique.”
― Charlie McDonnell, Fun Science: A Guide to Life, the Universe and Why Science Is So Awesome

“Which begs the question, how exactly do we know anything about the core given that we’ve never seen it? You’re forgetting, of course, that geologists are SUPER ROCK DETECTIVES — able to solve any mystery. Even one as deep as this.”
― Charlie McDonnell, Fun Science: A Guide to Life, the Universe and Why Science Is So Awesome

“The second law of thermal dynamics:
Just in case you aren’t familiar with this law, it’s used to explain how, given enough time, anything that exists within a closed system is slowly moving towards disorder. If you’re in a closed system, which we are, then this law states that things will either stay the same or get worse. It’s not a very optimistic law, to say the least.”
― Charlie McDonnell, Fun Science: A Guide to Life, the Universe and Why Science Is So Awesome

“I’ve basically just accepted at this point that the fun part of Fun Science actually means “terrifying.”
― Charlie McDonnell, Fun Science: A Guide to Life, the Universe and Why Science Is So Awesome