# Quote — Stephen Baxter, Ring

> It was too anthropomorphic to consider the lifecycle of a star as some analogy of human birth, life and death. A star was a construct of physical processes; the evolution it went through was simply a search for equilibrium stages between changing, opposing forces. There was no life or death involved, no loss or gain: just process.
>
> Why shouldn’t it be beautiful?

- Author: [Stephen Baxter](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-baxter.md)
- Book: [Ring](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-baxter/ring.md)
- Page: 755
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Stephen_Baxter#Ring_(1994)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-baxter/ring/it-was-too

## More from this book

> The river of time flowed unmarked, towards the endless seas of timelike infinity.

p. 891 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-baxter/ring/the-river-of-time.md)

> Maybe it’s time we humans abandoned our species-specific chauvinism—our petty outrage that the Universe has unfolded in a way that doesn’t suit us.

p. 825 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-baxter/ring/maybe-its-time.md)

> “But that’s insane,” Morrow protested.
>
> Uvarov hissed, “No one ever said it wasn’t. We’re human beings. What do you expect?”

p. 680 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-baxter/ring/but-thats-insane.md)