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  2. Necessity is the mother of invention - Wikipedia

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    Plato's Republic says "our need will be the real creator", [5] which Jowett's 1894 translation rendered loosely as "The true creator is necessity, who is the mother of our invention." [6] The connection of mother and necessity is documented in Latin and in English in the 16th century: William Horman quoted the Latin phrase Mater artium ...

  3. Ester Boserup - Wikipedia

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    (Boserup, E. 1965. p 13) [2] A major point of her book is that "necessity is the mother of invention". Her other major work, Woman's Role in Economic Development , explored the allocation of tasks between men and women, and inaugurated decades of subsequent work connecting issues of gender to those of economic development, pointing out that ...

  4. The Mothers of Invention - Wikipedia

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    Record executives demanded the name be changed again, and so, "out of necessity", Zappa later said, "We became the Mothers of Invention", referencing the proverb "Necessity is the mother of invention." After early struggles, the Mothers enjoyed substantial popular commercial success.

  5. The Crow and the Pitcher - Wikipedia

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    Other tellers of the story stress the crow's persistence. In Francis Barlow's edition the proverb 'Necessity is the mother of invention' is applied to the story [5] while an early 20th-century retelling quotes the proverb 'Where there's a will, there's a way'. [6]

  6. List of people considered father or mother of a scientific ...

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    The following is a list of people who are considered a "father" or "mother" (or "founding father" or "founding mother") of a scientific field.Such people are generally regarded to have made the first significant contributions to and/or delineation of that field; they may also be seen as "a" rather than "the" father or mother of the field.

  7. Melvin Kranzberg - Wikipedia

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    Invention is the mother of necessity. Technology comes in packages, big and small. Although technology might be a prime element in many public issues, nontechnical factors take precedence in technology-policy decisions. All history is relevant, but the history of technology is the most relevant.

  8. 25 Iconic Food Quotes We Think Of Every Time We Eat - AOL

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    Thomas Keller "A recipe has no soul. You, as the cook, must bring soul to the recipe."

  9. If wishes were horses, beggars would ride - Wikipedia

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    The first recognizable ancestor of the rhyme was recorded in William Camden's (1551–1623) Remaines of a Greater Worke, Concerning Britaine, printed in 1605, which contained the lines: "If wishes were thrushes beggars would eat birds". [4]