Necessity is the mother of invention

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" Needs are mothers of discovery " is an English proverb. This means, roughly, that the main driving force for most new inventions is necessity.

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Meaning

• In Oxford Dictionary , the maxim has been defined as;

"When the need for something becomes imperative, you are forced to find ways to get or achieve it."

• According to Cambridge Dictionary , this is "an expression that means that if you really need to do something, you'll figure out how to do it."
• The Longman dictionary has defined the saying as: "if someone really needs to do something, they will find a way to do it."

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History

This proverb writer is unknown. This phrase is familiar in England, but in Latin, not in English. In 1519, Winchester and Eton school principals, William Horman, used the Latin phrase Mater the meaning of necessity in his book Vulgaria . In 1545 Roger Ascham used the English version closely, Necessitie, inuentour of all goodness , in his book Toxophilus . In 1608, George Chapman, in his two-part drama The Conspiracy and Tragedy of Charles, the Duke of Byron, used a very similar phrase: Great Mother, Of ​​all production (Graue needs) However, the actual usage of the earliest proverb Needs is the mother of the discovery sometimes ascribed to Richard Franck, who uses it in his book North Memoir , calculated for the Scottish line (1658). Plato in book 2 of The Republic wrote "Then, let me say, let's start and make the idea of ​​a State, but the real creator is the need, who is the mother of our invention." Aramis to Fouquet in Ten Years After, written by Alexander Dumas (1845-1850) "Bah! Needs are mothers of discovery, and when you think all is lost, something will be found that will take it all."

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In popular culture

• In 1964, Frank Zappa took over the leadership of the American rock band The Soul Giants. He changed the band name The Mothers, referring to jazz praise from mother to a great musician. However, their record company, Verve Records, objected to satire and by Zappa's need to change the name, create (and define) The Mother of Invention.
• Danish economist Ester Boserup believes "needs are the mother of discovery" and this is the main point in his book Agricultural Growth Condition: The Economics of Agrarian Change under Population Pressure.
• Freelancer Project Headquarters in the web series Red vs. Blue is a spacecraft called "Parent Discovery", referring to the Project Director of Freelancer using all the means he thinks is necessary to ensure survival and humanitarian progress.
• Episode Schoolhouse Rock! takes the phrase literally, describing the great American inventors as their thinkers of ideas to meet their mother's needs in the episode "Mother Necessity."

"If the need is the mother of discovery, then laziness is the father." The driving force for engineers and coders, attributed to Allen Dale engineer c 1990 in Erie, PA.

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Criticism

In a speech at the British Mathematical Association on the importance of education in 1917, Alfred North Whitehead argues that the "foundation of discovery is science, and science is almost entirely the product of a pleasant intellectual curiosity." and is different from the old saying "Needs are the mother of dodges in vain" is much closer to the truth.

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In other languages ​​and cultures

• Russian: "???????????????", which literally means "poor cunning".

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See also

• Industrial Revolution
• The Manhattan Project
• Social contract

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References

Source of the article : Wikipedia