5+ James Burke Quotes And Sayings

Following is our list of the best James Burke quotes and sayings.

We don't grow unless we take risks. Any successful company is riddled with failures. — James Burke

The coming of the printing press must have seemed as if it would turn the world upside down in the way it spread and, above all, democratized knowledge. Provide you could pay and read, what was on the shelves in the new bookshops was yours for the taking. The speed with which printing presses and their operators fanned out across Europe is extraordinary. From the single Mainz press of 1457, it took only twenty-three years to establish presses in 110 towns: 50 in Italy, 30 in Germany, 9 in France, 8 in Spain, 8 in Holland, 4 in England, and so on. — James Burke

When the printing press was developed in the fifteenth century it was said that printed books would make reading and writing the infatuation of people who have no business reading and writing. — James Burke

Why should we look to the past in order to prepare for the future? Because there is nowhere else to look. — James Burke

The key to why things change is the key to everything. — James Burke