R.U.R. (2004) (edit title/settings)

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• Harry Domin: Director General, Rossum's Universal Robots
• Fabry: Technical Director, R.U.R
• Dr. Gall: Head of Physiology and Research Department, R.U.R.
• Dr. Hallemeier: Head of Institute for Robot Psychology and Behaviour, R.U.R
• Busman: Commercial Director, R.U.R.
• Alquist: Head of Construction, R.U.R.
• Mrs. Helena: Add a description of this character.
• Rossum
• Nana
• Primus
• Su Ila
• Marius

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• “Nobody could hate man as much as man! Give a man a stone and he'll throw it at you.”

  Harry Domin

• “A product of the human brain has at last escaped from the control of human hands. This is the comedy of science.”

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• I think it’s better to lay a single brick than to draw up plans that are too great.

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• The most dramatic element in modern civilization is the fact that one human truth stands against a truth no less human, one ideal against another ideal, one positive value against a value no less positive, and that the conflict does not represent, as we are often told, a struggle between a noble truth and vile, selfish evil.

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• A product of the human brain has at last escaped from the control of human hands. This is the comedy of science.

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• relativity of human knowledge and attitudes, and therefore also upon the relativity of the so-called great truths, religious and ideological. This basic supposition led them to resist all generations, all monumental visions to save the world.

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• If you were to read them a twenty-volume encyclopedia they could repeat the contents in order, but they never think up anything original. They’d make fine university professors.

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• They maintained that what the world needed was not great truths but tolerance—the idea that someone who defends concepts and attitudes differing from one’s own may nevertheless be a good person who may have discovered a useful truth.

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• within the next ten years Rossum’s Universal Robots will produce so much wheat, so much cloth, so much everything that things will no longer have any value. Everyone will be able to take as much as he needs. There’ll be no more poverty. Yes, people will be out of work, but by then there’ll be no work left to be done. Everything will be done by living machines. People will do only what they enjoy. They will live only to perfect themselves.

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• the scientific materialism of the last century. His desire to create an artificial man—in the chemical and biological, not the mechanical sense—is inspired by a foolish and obstinate wish to prove God unnecessary and meaningless.

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• I wanted to transform all of humanity into a worldwide aristocracy. Unrestricted, free, and supreme people.

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• The word Robot (invented by Čapek’s brother Josef) was adopted by many languages as an incarnation of the technical revolution.

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• Europe

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Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Karel Čapek (Author)
2. Claudia Novack-Jones (Translator)

Other Contributors:

1. Ivan Klíma (Introduction)

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• Dewey: 891.86252

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• Books › Literature & Fiction › World Literature › United States › History & Criticism › Literary Theory
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Drama › Continental European
• Books › Literature & Fiction › World Literature › Slavic
• Books › Science Fiction & Fantasy › Science Fiction › High Tech
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