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There's just something about this story that feels so timeless, classical, and eternal. Everything is so allegorical, metaphorical, symbolic, and polysemic and I can't help but feel this is the kind-of book that should be re-visited serveral times throughout one's life. The only thing that brings it down somewhat, for me, is the occasionally confusing writing style. I'm sure this is most likely my fault and that I wasn't paying enough attention but there was a few times where the author jumped into a past story with little indication. The result of this was an overflow of confusion as to where the characters were and what they were doing.

This book made me really quite emotional. To hear Hawkin talk about AI (which is now more prominent than ever), the development into a multi-planetary species (which we are now closer to than ever), and fusion power (which has had recent and vast breakthroughs) without being here to witness their developments in rather upsetting. Steven Hawkin died in 2018, I was just fourteen years old. Weirdly, though, I remember crying a lot. I had heard lots about Hawkin, seen him on the news, and really enjoyed listening to the small news segments that would show clips of him talking. Five years later - and during the afterword to this short book - I found myself crying again. There is something so beautiful about Steven Hawkin's life and I find his story deeply inspiring. I am so grateful for the impact that he had on this world

Great explanation on why black holes are so dark.

This book is dense with beautiful knowledge. I listened to the audiobook version whilst running at night and, thus, couldn't make the same notes I normally do. I am currently trying to find all the aspects that I wanted to take note of though.

Anthropic principle: The universe has to be (more-or-less) how we see it because, if it were different, there wouldn't be anyone here to observe it.

After reading three fictitious and dystopian novels in short succession (Fahrenheit 451, Animal Farm, and Nineteen Eighty-Four), I now want to delve into some science reads. Speaking of, I have a list called 'Science Reads' of all the scientific books that stand-out to me for their quality if anyone is interested. The list is, of course, designed with myself in mind but, with the popularity of each book, will surely be appropriate for a rather large demographic.