Quotes & Sayings About Necessity Is The Mother Of Invention

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

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, they say, is the mother of invention, but fear too, is not barren of ingenious suggestions."
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"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

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

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

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

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

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

Necessity is literally the mother of invention. — Plato

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

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

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

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

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

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

Poverty is the mother of invention — Sunday Adelaja

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Necessity is the mother of all invention. — Albert Einstein