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Karel Čapek
(9 Jan 1890 - 25 Dec 1938)
Czech writer and playwright who introduced the word robot in his play R. U. R. (Rossum's Universal Robots, 1921), though he credited is brother Josef for originating the word that the play made known internationally.
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Science Quotes by Karel Čapek (1 quote)
[Radius]: You will work. You will build ... You will serve them... Robots of the world... The power of man has fallen... A new world has arisen. The rule of the Robots... March!
The word 'robot' was coined in this play for a new working class of automatons (from the Czech word robota meaning compulsory labour)
The word 'robot' was coined in this play for a new working class of automatons (from the Czech word robota meaning compulsory labour)
— Karel Čapek
R.U.R. (1920), 89-90 in 1961 ed.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
(1987) -- 
