Find the perfect quote to float your boat. Shmoop breaks down key quotations from RUR.
Dreams, Hopes and Plans Quotes
[…] he could have created a jellyfish with a Socratic brain or a one-hundred-fifty-foot worm. But because he hadn't a shred of humor about him, he took it into his head to create an ordinary vert...
Gender Quotes
Why don't you let me finish my sentences? (prologue.31)
Love Quotes
Oh, we thought that Marius and Sulla were lovers. (prologue.171)
Death Quotes
HELENA: You want to have her killed?DOMIN: Machines cannot be killed. (prologue.141-142)
Power Quotes
SULLA: I am writing to confirm your order for fifteen thousand Robots.DOMIN [thinking]: Fifteen thousand Robots. Fifteen thousand Robots. (prologue.3-4)
Religion Quotes
HELENA: It is said that man is the creation of God.DOMIN: So much the worse. God had no grasp of modern technology. (prologue.93-94)
Society and Class Quotes
DOMIN: What do you think? From a practical standpoint, what is the best kind of worker?HELENA: The best? Probably one who —who—who is honest—and dedicated.DOMIN: No, it's the one that's the c...
Technology and Modernization Quotes
Imagine him sitting over a test tube and thinking how the whole tree of life would grow out of it, starting with some species of worm and ending—ending with man himself. (1.64)