# Quote — Stephen Baxter, Ring

> Try to remember this lesson. It might keep you alive a little longer. The most precious thing to a human being is a mind-set: more precious than one’s own life, even. Human history has taught us that lesson time and again, with its endless parade of wars—human sacrifices en masse—thousands of deaths over the most trivial of differences of religious interpretation.

- Author: [Stephen Baxter](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-baxter.md)
- Book: [Ring](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-baxter/ring.md)
- Page: 669
- 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/try-to-remember

## 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)