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.
Progress in science depends on new techniques, new discoveries and new ideas, probably in that order. - Sydney Brenner
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
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…
The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent. - Sydney Brenner
The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.
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 was interested in cel… - Sydney Brenner
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 was interested in cel…
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
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…
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
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.…
Innovation comes only from an assault on the unknown. - Sydney Brenner
Innovation comes only from an assault on the unknown.
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
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.
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
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…
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