I cannot stand all the people who take themselves very seriously, who cannot just laugh at themselves. Sydney Brenner Read Quote
The thing I’m most interested in is the nervous system. How do brains grow? How do genes build complicated nervous systems? Sydney Brenner Read Quote
The supporters now, the bureaucrats of science, do not wish to take any risks. So in order to get it supported, they want to know from the start that it will work. Sydney Brenner Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 in meeting new challenges knew no bounds. Sydney Brenner Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
There was still food rationing in England and life was difficult all through my 2 year stay in Oxford. Sydney Brenner Read Quote
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 University, carrying sandwiches for my lunch and returning in the evening the same way. Sydney Brenner Read Quote
