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

> “Inertia propulsion!” Pierre exclaimed. “On our last shift we were teaching them Newton’s law of gravity. Today they have inertia drives! Where will they be tomorrow?”
>
> “They probably will be able to control space and time and won’t have to bother with such clumsy things as black hole gravity generators and inertia drives,” Amalita replied.

- 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: 267
- 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/inertia-propulsion-pierre

## 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)