RUR Technology and Modernization Quotes

Science has historically involved live experiments and brutality to people—the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiments on black men actually occurred after this play was written. Some of the worries about technology in R.U.R. are silly. Making robots won't make all women on Earth become infertile. But the ugly dissection of Damon, torturing him for no good reason and no useful outcome—that is the sort of thing that science in fact will do, if you don't watch it closely.