Dodge Quotes (2)
Inventive genius requires pleasurable mental activity as a condition for its vigorous exercise. 'Necessity is the mother of invention' is a silly proverb. 'Necessity is the mother of futile dodges' is much closer to the truth. The basis of growth of modern invention is science, and science is almost wholly the outgrowth of pleasurable intellectual curiosity.
The Aims of Education and other Essays (1967), 45.
See also: | Curiosity (14) | Futile (2) | Genius (53) | Intellect (47) | Invention (84) | Mother (10) | Necessity (16) | Pleasure (18) | Progress (117) | Proverb (16)
Logic is neither a science nor an art, but a dodge.
Quoted in Evelyn Abbott and Lewis Campbell, The Life and Letters of Benjamin Jowett, M.A., Master of Balliol College, Oxford (1897), Vol. 1, 131.
