Necessity is the mother of all invention.
Interpretation
Innovation arises from the need to solve problems.
The quote suggests that the driving force behind creativity and invention is the necessity to address particular challenges or needs. When faced with obstacles or demands, individuals often find themselves compelled to devise new solutions and technologies, highlighting how human ingenuity is sparked by the urge to fulfill specific requirements.
In practice
A speaker at a tech conference discussing how new technologies arise from meeting user needs.
I cannot then believe in this concept of an anthropomorphic God who has the powers of interfering with these natural laws. As I said before, the most beautiful and most profound religious emotion that we can experience is the sensation of the mystical. And this mysticality is the power of all true science.
If I would follow your advice and Jesus could perceive it, he, as a Jewish teacher, surely would not approve of such behavior.
I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.
In the middle of adversity there is great opportunity.
I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.
To me the worst thing seems to be a school principally to work with methods of fear, force and artificial authority. Such treatment destroys the sound sentiments, the sincerity and the self-confidence of pupils and produces a subservient subject.
All matter comes from a primary substance, the luminiferous ether
Debunking bad science should be constant obligation of the science community, even if it takes time away from serious research or seems to be a losing battle. One takes comfort from the fact there is no Gresham's laws in science. In the long run, good science drives out bad.
The research worker, in his efforts to express the fundamental laws of Nature in mathematical form, should strive mainly for mathematical beauty. He should take simplicity into consideration in a subordinate way to beauty ... It often happens that the requirements of simplicity and beauty are the same, but where they clash, the latter must take precedence.
Farming is the riskiest profession in the world since the fate of the crop is closely linked to the behaviour of the monsoon.
If ever there was a slamming of the door in the face of constructive investigation, it is the word miracle. To a medieval peasant, a radio would have seemed like a miracle.
More than any other product of human scientific culture scientific knowledge is the collective property of all mankind.
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