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Sydney Brenner Quotes
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 an early and active proponent of the Human Genome Sequencing Project. - Sydney Brenner Quotes
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. - Sydney Brenner Quotes
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. - Sydney Brenner Quotes
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. - Sydney Brenner Quotes
I immediately began to read about bacterial viruses and in October 1952 I arrived in Oxford to do a Ph.D. in the Physical Chemistry Laboratory. - Sydney Brenner Quotes
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 Quotes
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. - Sydney Brenner Quotes
I spent 20 years sharing an office with Francis Crick and many new and exciting ideas (both right and wrong) were generated from our conversations. - Sydney Brenner Quotes
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. - Sydney Brenner Quotes
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. - Sydney Brenner Quotes
In my final year I failed Medicine, scraped through Surgery but got a First Class in the third subject, Obstetrics and Gynecology. - Sydney Brenner Quotes
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. - Sydney Brenner Quotes
Living most of the time in a world created mostly in ones head, does not make for an easy passage in the real world. - Sydney Brenner Quotes
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 Quotes
My Uncle Harry had given me a microscope as a present which allowed me to continue my personal explorations of the living world. - Sydney Brenner Quotes
My parents were Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe; my father came to South Africa from Lithuania in 1910, my mother, from Latvia, in 1922. - Sydney Brenner Quotes
My parents would have preferred me to become a surgeon or a physician but were most understanding of the ambitions of their son. - Sydney Brenner Quotes
So thats when I saw the DNA model for the first time, in the Cavendish, and thats when I saw that this was it. And in a flash you just knew that this was very fundamental. - Sydney Brenner Quotes
The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent. - Sydney Brenner Quotes
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 Quotes
There was still food rationing in England and life was difficult all through my 2 year stay in Oxford. - Sydney Brenner Quotes
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