# Quote — Robert L. Forward, Dragon's Egg

> Finally, in one fateful trillionth of a second, a nuclear compound was formed that had two very important properties: it was stable, and it could make a copy of itself.
>
> Life had come to the crust of the neutron star.

- Author: [Robert L. Forward](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-l-forward.md)
- Book: [Dragon's Egg](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-l-forward/dragons-egg.md)
- Page: 5
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robert_L._Forward#Dragon's_Egg_(1980)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-l-forward/dragons-egg/finally-in-one

## More from this book

> An animal doesn’t need to develop curiosity and intelligence if it has no problems that need solving.

p. 7 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-l-forward/dragons-egg/an-animal-doesnt.md)

> After a short flurry of national and international concern over the “death of the Sun,” the human race settled down to solving the insoluble problem in the best way that they knew—they ignored it and hoped it would go away.

p. 11 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-l-forward/dragons-egg/after-a-short.md)

> If the computer had been a human, its eyebrows would have raised.

p. 202 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-l-forward/dragons-egg/if-the-computer.md)