“Mankind will endure. In twenty years the world will belong to man again; even if it's only to a couple of savages on the tiniest island … that'll be a start. And as long as there's some small beginning, that's fine. In a thousand years they'll have caught up to where we are now and then surpass even that … to accomplish what we only dreamed of.”

— Karel Čapek , R.U.R.

R.U.R. (1920)

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Czech writer 1890–1938

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