Capek Robot Quotes & Sayings

The word "robot" comes from the 1920 Czech play R.U.R. by playwright Karel Capek ("robot" means "drudgery" in the Czech language and "labor" in Slovak). — Michio Kaku

Wittig appears to take issue with genitally organized sexuality per se and to call for an alternative economy of pleasures which would both contest the construction of female subjectivity marked by women's supposedly distinctive reproductive function. — Judith Butler

Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul. — Will Durant

But the love I have for all of you doesn't stop the hurt I feel inside. — Francisco X Stork

[History is] the story of the magnificent rear-guard action fought during several thousand years by dogma against curiosity. — Robert Staughton Lynd

I think writers need windows on a view to remind them that a whole world is out there, not the minutiae with which they might be dealing on a close scale. — Anne McCaffrey