Necessity is the mother of invention.

Richard Franck

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Invention Creativity

Author

Richard Franck

Language

English

Time

1694 1690s 17th century

Occupation

Writer

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United Kingdom Europe

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Citation

Franck, Richard. Northern Memoirs: Calculated for the Meridian of Scotland. London: Henry Mortclock, 1694.

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The months and days are the travelers of eternity. The years that come and go are also voyagers... I too for years past have been stirred by the sight of a solitary cloud drifting with the wind to ceaseless thoughts of roaming.

Matsuo Basho

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Wanderlust Eternity

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Matsuo Basho
Source
The Narrow Road to the Deep North
Genre
Travel writing
Language
Japanese
Time
1694 1690s 17th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Basho, Matsuo. おくのほそ道 [The Narrow Road to the Deep North]. Tokyo, 1702.

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Basho, Matsuo. "The Narrow Road to the Deep North." The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches, translated by Nobuyuki Yuasa. Penguin Classics, 1967.

Another quote about Creativity

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.

Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi

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Topic
Discovery Originality Creativity
Speaker
Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi
Language
English
Time
1962 1960s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Szent-Gyorgyi, Albert. Quoted in The Scientist Speculates: An Anthology of Partly-Baked Ideas, written by Irving John Good. Heinemann, 1962, ch. 1, sect. 6.