He told me that Francis Crick and Jim Watson had solved the structure of DNA, so we decided to go across to Cambridge to see it. This was in April of 1953. — Sydney Brenner Copy Share Image
The moment I saw the model and heard about the complementing base pairs I realized that it was the key to understanding all the problems in biology we had found intractable - it was the birth of molecular biology. — 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
