Sydney Brenner

I lived at home and I cycled every morning to the railway station to travel by train to Johannesburg followed by a…

— Sydney Brenner

I also became interested in chemistry and gradually accumulated enough test tubes and other glassware to do chemical experiments, using small quantities…

— 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…

— 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…

— Sydney Brenner

In 1995, I founded The Molecular Sciences Institute with a gift from the Philip Morris Company where I hoped that we could…

— 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…

— 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…

— Sydney Brenner

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

— 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…

— Sydney Brenner

So that's when I saw the DNA model for the first time, in the Cavendish, and that's when I saw that this…

— Sydney Brenner

Many have gone on to do important scientific work but all remember those wonderful times when we and our science were young…

— Sydney Brenner

He told me that Francis Crick and Jim Watson had solved the structure of DNA, so we decided to go across to…

— Sydney Brenner

Today, the Americans have developed a new culture in science based on the slavery of graduate students. Now, graduate students of American…

— Sydney Brenner

The moment I saw the model and heard about the complementing base pairs I realized that it was the key to understanding…

— Sydney Brenner

The art of doing science is doing the important things first.

— Sydney Brenner

People have always asked whether evolution is constantly driving onwards and upwards. Is there always going to be improvement? The answer is…

— Sydney Brenner

I cannot stand all the people who take themselves very seriously, who cannot just laugh at themselves.

— Sydney Brenner

As was predicted at the beginning of the Human Genome Project, getting the sequence will be the easy part as only technical…

— Sydney Brenner

I think one of the things about creativity is not to be afraid of saying the wrong thing.

— Sydney Brenner