Technology Quotes by Sydney Brenner

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

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

The thing I'm most interested in is the nervous system. How do brains grow? How do genes build complicated nervous systems?

— Sydney Brenner

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

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

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

There was still food rationing in England and life was difficult all through my 2 year stay in Oxford.

— Sydney Brenner

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

The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.

— Sydney Brenner

There's no exploration anymore, except in a very few places.

— Sydney Brenner

Innovation comes only from an assault on the unknown.

— Sydney Brenner

“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

The most important thing today is for young people to take responsibility, to actually know how to formulate an idea and how to work…

— Sydney Brenner

Progress in science depends on new techniques, new discoveries and new ideas, probably in that order.

— Sydney Brenner

Have you tried neuroxing papers? It.'s a very easy and cheap process. You hold the page in front of your eyes and you let…

— Sydney Brenner