- "The true creator is necessity, who is the mother of invention." Plato, The Republic, Greek author & philosopher in Athens (427 BC - 347 BC)
- "Doubt is the father of invention." Galileo
- "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, Novelist
- "Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous." Leonardo da Vinci, Italian draftsman, Painter, Sculptor, Architect and Engineer (1452-1519)
- "Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home." David Frost
- "An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously. Charles F. Kettering (1876 - 1958)
- "The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence." Nikola Tesla
- "We mustn't be afraid of inventing anything. Everething there is in us exists in nature. After all, we're part of nature. If it resembles nature, that's fine. If it doesn't, what of it? When man wanted to invent something as useful as the human foot, he invented the wheel, which he used to transport himself and his burdens. The fact that the wheel doesn't have the slightest resemblance to the human foot is hardly a criticism of it." Françoise Gilot, Author Life with Picasso
- "To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk." Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931)
- "I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work." Thomas A. Edison
- "Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza." Dave Barry, American Writer and Humorist
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and also they say ‘the need is the mother of invention’
” NEED” is the sperm of an invention , demand is the food that nurtures the baby to be a Billionaire in pennies or pounds.” Polyman
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“The true creator is necessity, who is the mother of invention.” Plato
It is my favorite, in my opinion Plato was really an inventor of ideas, a man created a political system that is the base of the modern ones.
invention leads to prosperity.
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