Sydney Brenner Quotes

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• In my second year, after moving to the Medical School, I began the courses of Anatomy and Physiology. I had begun to see that I…
• I lived at home and I cycled every morning to the railway station to travel by train to Johannesburg followed by a walk to the…
• Progress in science depends on new techniques, new discoveries and new ideas, probably in that order.
• The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.
• It is now widely realized that nearly all the 'classical' problems of molecular biology have either been solved or will be solved in the next…
• 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.…
• I think one of the things about creativity is not to be afraid of saying the wrong thing.
• 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 it…
• I also became interested in chemistry and gradually accumulated enough test tubes and other glassware to do chemical experiments, using small quantities of chemicals purchased…
• So that's when I saw the DNA model for the first time, in the Cavendish, and that's when I saw that this was it. And…
• I completed the first three years of primary school in one year and was admitted to the local school the age of six directly into…
• There was still food rationing in England and life was difficult all through my 2 year stay in Oxford.
• I set up a laboratory in the Department of Physiology in the Medical School in South Africa and begin to try to find a bacteriophage…
• In 1995, I founded The Molecular Sciences Institute with a gift from the Philip Morris Company where I hoped that we could create an environment…
• 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.
• Many have gone on to do important scientific work but all remember those wonderful times when we and our science were young and our excitement…
• 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…
• I went in with Jack and Leslie, into this room that was lined with brick, and there on the side I can remember very clearly…
• 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…
• 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…

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