People have always asked whether evolution is constantly driving onwards and upwards. Is there always going to be improvement? The answer is no: evolution is a progression of form and function, but it is not purposeful. — Sydney Brenner Copy Share Image
I lived at home and I cycled every morning to the railway station to travel by train to Johannesburg followed by a walk to… — Sydney Brenner Copy Share Image
I also became interested in chemistry and gradually accumulated enough test tubes and other glassware to do chemical experiments, using small quantities of chemicals… — Sydney Brenner Copy Share Image
The thing I'm most interested in is the nervous system. How do brains grow? How do genes build complicated nervous systems? — Sydney Brenner Copy Share Image
I sometimes say I am the extinguished professor, because what I'd really like to be is the postdoc, to have that kind of thinking.… — Sydney Brenner Copy Share Image
Living most of the time in a world created mostly in one's head, does not make for an easy passage in the real world. — Sydney Brenner Copy Share Image
In 1995, I founded The Molecular Sciences Institute with a gift from the Philip Morris Company where I hoped that we could create an… — Sydney Brenner Copy Share Image
There was still food rationing in England and life was difficult all through my 2 year stay in Oxford. — Sydney Brenner Copy Share Image
I went in with Jack and Leslie, into this room that was lined with brick, and there on the side I can remember very… — Sydney Brenner Copy Share Image
The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent. — Sydney Brenner Copy Share Image
“During this time (at high school) I discovered the Public Library... It was here that I found a source of knowledge and the means… — Sydney Brenner Copy Share Image
