The most important thing today is for young people to take responsibility, to actually know how to formulate an idea and how to work on it. Not to buy into the so-called apprenticeship. — Sydney Brenner Copy Share Image
Today, the Americans have developed a new culture in science based on the slavery of graduate students. Now, graduate students of American institutions are afraid... He's got to perform. The post-doc is an indentured labourer. — 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
