Necessity And Invention Quotes & Sayings

Necessity is not the mother of invention. Knowledge and experiment are its parents. It sometimes happens that successful search is made for unknown materials to fill well-recognized and predetermined requirements. It more often happens that the acquirement of knowledge of the previously unknown properties of a material suggests its trial for some new use. These facts strongly indicate the value of knowledge of properties of materials and indicate a way for research. — Willis R. Whitney

Necessity is the motherfucker of invention. — Christopher Buckley

Experiences are everything. And businesses must create experiences that mean something. If necessity is the mother of invention, then vision is the father of innovation. — Brian Solis

Necessity
thou best of peacemakers, As well as surest prompter of invention. — Walter Scott

Sheer necessity,-the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Necessity, they say, is the mother of invention, but fear too, is not barren of ingenious suggestions."
"Nice little saloon, isn't it" I said, as if noticing it for the first time.
"At noon I gave no orders for change of course, and the mates whiskers grew much concerned and seemed to be offering themselves to my unduly notice. — Joseph Conrad

Invention is the mother of necessity. — Thorstein Veblen

We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity. — H.G.Wells

I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention ... arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble. — Agatha Christie

Necessity, the mother of invention. — George Farquhar

The true creator is necessity, who is the mother of our invention. — Plato

They say that necessity is the mother of invention, but it is also the grandmother of desperation. — Dean Koontz

Necessity, mother of invention. — William Wycherley

It's true that necessity is the mother of invention. But for those of us without fathers, there is a deeper truth - necessity is the mother of self-invention. — Michael Hainey

Necessity is not merely the father of invention; it is the father of courage. — Michael Josephson

Poverty is the origin of invention — Sunday Adelaja

Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity. — Samuel Richardson

To a great extent the achievements of invention, of mechanical and of artistic creation, must of necessity, and rightly, be individual rather than governmental. It is the self-reliant pioneer in every enterprise who beats the path along which American civilization has marched. Such individual effort is the glory of America. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

Luxury, not necessity, is the mother of invention. Every artifact is somewhat wanting in its function, and that is what drives its evolution. — Henry Petroski

Necessity is literally the mother of invention. — Plato

It is impossible! It has never happened - it cannot happen in the very nature of things. Marriage is something against nature. Marriage is an imposition, an invention of man - certainly out of necessity, but now even that necessity is out of date. It was a necessary evil in the past, but now it can be dropped. And it should be dropped: man has suffered enough for it, more than enough. It is an ugly institution for the simple reason that love cannot be legalized. Love and law are contradictory phenomena. — Rajneesh

Any actor, any playwright who's worked a life in the theater knows how to do things cheaply and quickly. It's just all by necessity. Invention is everything. — Israel Horovitz

Necessity may be mother of invention, but fun is the father. — Alex Faickney Osborn

I don't know if fury can compete with necessity as the mother of invention, but I recommend it. — Gloria Steinem

Progress comes by experiment, and this from ennui that leads to voyages, wars, revolutions, and plainly to change in the arts of expression; that cries out to the imagination, and is the nurse of the invention whereof we term necessity the mother. — Edmund Clarence Stedman

How true is that necessity is the mother of invention, how very true. — Yann Martel

Necessity might be the mother of invention, but restriction is the mother of efficiency. — Terry Gilliam

If necessity is the Mother of Invention, than adversity must surely be the Father of Re-invention. — Johnny Flora

The girls put their wits to work, and - necessity being the mother of invention - made whatever they needed. — Louisa May Alcott

We say that necessity is the mother of invention, and no country has more of a necessity to develop clean power than China. — Thomas Friedman

In primitive society, man produced directly for the satisfaction of his own wants, but with the development of society came differentiation of function; exchange and barter arose, various trades sprang up, and with the necessity of commercial intercourse came the invention of money. — Charles A. Beard

War is only an invention, not a biological necessity. — Margaret Mead

Necessity, oftener than facility, has been the mother of invention; and the most prolific school of all has been the school of difficulty. — Samuel Smiles

Necessity is the mother of all invention. — Albert Einstein

While it is often said that necessity is the father of invention, it is indeed an irony that some of mankind's greatest technological advancements were born out of the human race's propensity for power, greed, violence and destruction. October 24, 1945 saw the birth of a global power called the United Nations in a bid to prevent yet another devastating world war. The world could ill afford a third global conflict which could wipe out the human race forever. — Yusuf R. Shaik

There's a whole generation of young people who are faced with the so-called 'jobless recovery.' Necessity is the mother of invention. They are out there, all around the world, creating new companies. — Don Tapscott

A man has a very insecure tenure of a property which another can carry away with his eyes. A few months reduced me to the cruel necessity either of destroying my machine, or of giving it to the public. To destroy it, I could not think of; to give up that for which I had laboured so long, was cruel. I had no patent, nor the means of purchasing one. In preference to destroying, I gave it to the public.
[On his inability to keep for himself a profitable income from his invention of the Spinning Mule.] — Samuel Crompton

Necessity, they say, is mother of invention, but fear, too, is not barren of ingenious suggestions. — Joseph Conrad

Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father. — Roger Von Oech

And yet the true creator is necessity, which is the mother of invention. — Aristotle.

Mothers are the necessity of invention. — Bill Watterson

Necessity used to be the mother of invention, but then we ran out of things that were necessary. The postmodern mother of invention is desire; we don't really "need" anything new, so we only create what we want. — Chuck Klosterman

Necessity is the mother of invention but boredom is the mother of doing bafflingly stupid shit. — Jenny Lawson

Economic necessity should be the mother of educational invention — Andy Hargreaves

As Napoleon Hill said, necessity may be the mother of invention but it is also the father of crime. — S. Hussain Zaidi

Remakes, in general, are a result of necessity being the mother of invention. They can't open movies consistently and break through the advertising clutter that's out there. — John Carpenter

Necessity first mothered invention. Now invention has little ones of her own, and they look just like grandma. — E.B. White

Because we imagine, we can have invention and technology. It's actually play, not necessity, that is the mother of invention. — Alison Gopnik

Work outside of school hours was a necessity at an early age, and with such time as I had I turned toward interests of my own devising, making things, experimenting, and planning for the future. I had read of Thomas Alva Edison and other successful inventors, and the idea of making an invention appealed to me as one of the few available means to accomplish a change in one's economic status, while at the same time bringing to focus my interest in technical things and making it possible to make a contribution to society as well. — Chester Carlson

One of the hardest conditions of boyhood is the almost continuous strain put upon the powers of invention by the constant and harassing necessity for explanations of every natural act. — Booth Tarkington

Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity. — Leonardo Da Vinci

They say necessity is the mother of invention, but if that's the case, laziness must be its father. — Anonymous

Mothers are a biological necessity; fathers are a social invention — Margaret Mead

Necessity starves on the stoop of invention. — Theodore Roethke

Poverty is the mother of invention — Sunday Adelaja