Necessity is the mother of invention. You must know you have a need, a driving force. There are time when advancements are made by mistakes but those are few and far between.
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The antonym of deficit is surplus.
Imagine that you are shepherding your families flock of sheep, way back in pre-history. Your Dad would like to know each evening, that you have brought back as many sheep as you started out with in the morning. So the short answer is in unrecorded pre-history. Our present European number systems have their origins in the middle east. But the Chinese and the Maya (at least) independently invented number systems. So the need for a number system seems to have driven its invention. "Necessity is the mother of invention" as the saying goes.
Necessity is the mother of all inventions and Roman numerals were needed in the past just for the same reasons that we still need numbers today.
There are four syllables in the word 'necessity'.
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"necessity is the mother of invention"This means that solutions to problems (the invention bit) are born out of then need for a solution (the necessity).As coming up with an idea is said to be the birth of an idea, this leads to the mother reference in the quote i.e. the need is the mother that gives birth to the idea for a solution.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
Necessity is the Mother of invention
'Necessity is the mother of invention' means that lifeforms develop and make new things for what they need, (e.g. to stick things together, humans invented glue!)
It means our great grandpas to the millionth power "necessity" to eat, "mothered" the invention of hunting and cooking food, and so on and so forth
Diamond's theory challenges the traditional view that necessity drives invention by suggesting that, in many cases, invention precedes necessity. This perspective implies that human creativity and curiosity play a significant role in driving innovation, rather than just immediate practical needs. It shifts the focus from reactive problem-solving to proactive creation in the realm of invention.