What has been done is little — I know — compared with what remains to be done.
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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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Johannes Gutenberg's Other Quotes
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.
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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