Seven Brief Lessons on Physics

I don't think I learned anything new from this book except for loop quantum gravity. It was more philosophical than I expected. Some of the quotes that left an impression on me:

“We are perhaps the only species on Earth to be conscious of the inevitability of our individual mortality. I fear that soon we shall also have to become the only species that will knowingly watch the coming of its own collective demise, or at least the demise of its civilization.”

“We are made of the same stardust of which all things are made, and when we are immersed in suffering or when we are experiencing intense joy we are being nothing other than what we can't help but be: a part of our world.”

“Life on Earth gives only a small taste of what can happen in the universe.”