Invention

Necessity is the mother of invention.

The act of finding out or inventing; contrivance or construction of that which has not before existed; as, the invention of logarithms; the invention of the art of printing.

We invent things because they were not previously in existence. It is the very nature of the human condition that we wonder what has not been wondered before and by the power of our thoughts and the conviction of our ideas we can bring about entirely new things.

In other words, we all love to tinker, toy with ideas and just plain make stuff up.

on Mar 7th 2001, 22:10:54, the old pirate wrote the following about

invention

Voltaire poohed any argument about the existence of God. If God does not exist, he reasoned, no matter – we would still invent Him.

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[[..I believe Goethe also said if God didn't exist, it would be necessary to / or / man would (have) invented Him..]]

Some ask why there was a father of invention. Why not? we say everything else has a father, why not invention too?

invention is when an idea comes alive

many inventions are repeats of things things that have been done in the past. some other things called inventions are actually discoveries.

The opposite of invention is group amnesia. Once useful things, which no longer have any relevance may be forgotten, even by historians and archaeologists.