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" "Much melancholy has devolved upon mankind, and it is detestable to me that might will triumph in the end ... Art must not serve might.
Karel Čapek (January 9, 1890 – December 25, 1938) was a Czech author and playwright, who introduced and made popular the word robot as a word for artificial human beings, which first appeared in his play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) in 1920.
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ALQUIST Yes, like Nana. Has Nana got a prayer book? HELENA Yes, a big thick one. ALQUIST And has it got prayers for various occasions? Against thunderstorms? Against illness? HELENA Against temptations, against floods ALQUIST But not against progress? HELENA I don’t think so. ALQUIST That’s a pity. HELENA Why? Do you mean you’d like to pray? ALQUIST I do pray. HELENA How? ALQUIST Something like this: “Oh, Lord, I thank thee for having given me toil. Enlighten Domin and all those who are astray; destroy their work, and aid mankind to return to their labors; let them not suffer harm in soul or body; deliver us from the Robots, and protect Helena, Amen.
není tak daleko od nás, jak povídají tato cizokrajná jména; je blízko, je na dosah našich srdcí a snad, snad i na dosah pomocné ruky; ale rozhodně dosti blízko, aby otřásl naším mozkem a probudil jej z letargie. Člověk dvacátého století nepoloží tváří v tvář této hrůze otázku Bohu, zda je, či není; ale položí otázku lidstvu, zda je, či není; a to je otázka, jež teď, a zvláště teď po světové válce, je hroznější a osudnější, než kdy byla jaká otázka po Bohu. Není to otázka humanity, nýbrž civilizace.