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What do you believe the quote “Necessity is the mother of invention” means?

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A need or problem encourages creative efforts to meet the need or solve the problem. This saying appears in the dialogue Republic, by the ancient Greek philosopher Plato.

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I believe that the quote means that needs are the reason inventions are created. You have needs and those give us the reason to invent new things. If we had no needs, we would have no inventions.

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