It is a press, certainly, but a press from which shall flow in inexhaustible streams the most abundant and most marvellous liquor that has ever flowed to relieve the thirst of men.

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Born around 1400 in Mainz, in the Holy Roman Empire, Johannes Gutenberg

Born around 1400 in Mainz, in the Holy Roman Empire, Johannes Gutenberg was a goldsmith and printer who combined movable metal type, oil-based ink, and a wooden press into the system that launched Europe's printing revolution. His Gutenberg Bible, completed circa 1455, demonstrated mass-produced books of manuscript quality and laid the groundwork for the Renaissance, the Reformation, and the Scientific Revolution.

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Born around 1400 in Mainz, in the Holy Roman Empire, Johannes Gutenberg's Other Quotes

What has been done is little — I know — compared with what remains to be done.

God suffers in the multitude of souls whom His word cannot reach. Religious truth is imprisoned in a small number of manuscript books which confine instead of spreading the public treasure.

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Considerate la vostra semenza: fatti non foste a viver come bruti, ma per seguir virtute e canoscenza.

-- Dante Alighieri

Lernen ist erfahren. Alles andere ist nur Information.

-- Hermann Hesse

Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come.

-- Victor Hugo

He who reads much and walks much, sees much and knows much.

-- Miguel de Cervantes

If in the first act you have a gun hanging on the wall, then in the last act it must fire.

-- Anton Chekhov

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe