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

- 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 environment wher…

- Sydney Brenner

The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.

- Sydney Brenner

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

- Sydney Brenner

Innovation comes only from an assault on the unknown.

- Sydney Brenner

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 mee…

- 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 was it. And in a flash you just knew that th…

- Sydney Brenner

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 decade.…

- 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