As was predicted at the beginning of the Human Genome Project, getting the sequence will be the easy part as only technical issues are involved. The hard part will be finding out what it means, because this poses intellectual problems… — Sydney Brenner Copy Share Image
During this period, I became interested in how the new techniques of cloning and sequencing DNA could influence the study of genetics and I was an early and active proponent of the Human Genome Sequencing Project. — 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
