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Sydney Brenner Quotes

British Scientist
Born: January 13, 1927
Innovation comes only from an assault on the unknown.
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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.
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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.
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Bounds Challenges Excitement Gone Important Knew Many Meeting New Our Remember Science Scientific Those Times Were Wonderful Work Young
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 where young people could pursue science in an atmosphere of harmonious purpose and high intellectual challenge.
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Atmosphere Challenge Company Could Create Environment Founded Gift Harmonious High Hoped Institute Intellectual Molecular Morris People Philip Purpose Pursue Science Sciences Where Young Young People
There was still food rationing in England and life was difficult all through my 2 year stay in Oxford.
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Difficult England Food Life Oxford Rationing Stay Still Through Year
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 system which we might use to solve the genetic code.
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Africa Begin Code Department Find Genetic Laboratory Medical Medical School Might Physiology School Solve South South Africa System Try Up Use Which
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 the fourth year, some two years younger than all my contemporaries.
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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 this was very fundamental.
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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 from a pharmacy supply house.
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Accumulate Also Became Chemical Chemicals Chemistry Enough Experiments Gradually House Interested Other Pharmacy Purchased Quantities Small Supply Test Tubes Using
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 go through there into the brain. It's much better than xeroxing.
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I think one of the things about creativity is not to be afraid of saying the wrong thing.
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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. The hard part will be finding out what it means, because this poses intellectual problems of how to understand the participation of the genes in the functions of living cells.
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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. The entry of large numbers of American and other biochemists into the field will ensure that all the chemical details of replication and transcription will be elucidated. Because of this, I have long felt that the future of molecular biology lies in the extension of research to other fields of biology, notably development and the nervous system.
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The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.
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Between Computer Modern Nonexistent
Progress in science depends on new techniques, new discoveries and new ideas, probably in that order.
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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.
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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 was interested in cells and their functions.
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After Anatomy Began Begun Cells Courses Functions Had Interested Medical Medical School Moving Physiology School Second See Year
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 was this small model with plates for the bases - the original model with everything screwed together.
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Bases Brick Clearly Everything I Can Jack Leslie Lined Model Original Plates Remember Room Screwed Side Small Together Very
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 it. This was in April of 1953.
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Across April Cambridge Decided Dna Francis Go Had He Jim Me See Solved Structure Watson
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.
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About Base Biology Birth Found Had Heard Intractable Key Model Molecular Moment Pairs Problems Realized Saw Understanding