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And Yet The True Creator Is Necessity, Which Is The Mother Of Invention.
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... And yet the true creator is necessity, which is the mother of
invention.
-- Plato (428-348? B.C.), "The Republic", Book II. 369C
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Mother is the invention of necessity.
Necessity is a Mother -- no invention!
Necessity is the mother of inventio
The beginning is the most important part of the work. -- Plato, The Republic. Book II. 377B
Mater artium necessitas. [Necessity is the mother of invention].
Things true and evident must of necessity be recognized by those who would contradict them.
-- Epictetus (c. 60 AD) -- Concerning the Epicureans, -- Discourses, Book ii, Chap. xx...