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Innovation comes only from an assault on the unknown.
Sydney Brenner / Researcher
Assault
Innovation
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There's no exploration anymore, except in a very few places.
Sydney Brenner / Researcher
Exploration
Very
Anymore
Except
Few
Places
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The art of doing science is doing the important things first.
Sydney Brenner / Researcher
Important Things
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The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.
Sydney Brenner / Researcher
Technology
Computer
Modern
Nonexistent
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I think one of the things about creativity is not to be afraid of saying the wrong thing.
Sydney Brenner / Researcher
Creativity
Saying The Wrong Thing
Thinking
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Progress in science depends on new techniques, new discoveries and new ideas, probably in that order.
Sydney Brenner / Researcher
Science
Discovery
Order
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There was still food rationing in England and life was difficult all through my 2 year stay in Oxford.
Sydney Brenner / Researcher
England
Oxford
Years
Rationing
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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.
Sydney Brenner / Researcher
Doe
Real
Real World
World
Time World Living
Mostly
Passage
The Real World
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The thing I'm most interested in is the nervous system. How do brains grow? How do genes build complicated nervous systems?
Sydney Brenner / Researcher
Complicated
Genes
Nervous
Nervous System
Brains
Systems
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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 / Researcher
April
Cambridge
Dna
Structure
Watson
Me See Go
Francis
Jim
Solved
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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 / Researcher
Bureaucrats
Supporters
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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.
Sydney Brenner / Researcher
Anatomy
Courses
Medical School
Moving
Physiology
School
Second Chance
Began
Functions
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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.
Sydney Brenner / Researcher
Dna
First Time
Flash
Fundamentals
Saws
Time First Time First
Model
Fundamental
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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.
Sydney Brenner / Researcher
Bounds
Challenges
Excitement
Gone
Important
New Challenges
Meeting
Scientific
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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 / Researcher
Code
Department
Laboratory
Medical School
Might Use
Physiology
School
South Africa
Trying
Begin
Africa
Genetic
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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 / Researcher
Apprenticeship
Formulate
Important Thing
Most Important Thing
So-Called
The Most Important
Young People
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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.
Sydney Brenner / Researcher
Brain
Eye
Let It Go
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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 / Researcher
Fourth
Primary School
School
Two
Years
Admitted
Younger
Completed
Contemporaries
Directly
Local
Local School
Primary
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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.
Sydney Brenner / Researcher
Chemistry
Experiments
House
Pharmacy
Tests
Tubes
Accumulate
Chemical
Gradually
Purchased
Supply
Test
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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 / Researcher
Active
Cloning
Dna
Genetics
Genome
Influence
Sequencing
Study
Period
Project
Techniques
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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 / Researcher
Biology
Pairs
Base
Model
Intractable
Realized
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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.
Sydney Brenner / Researcher
Home
Morning
Travel
Evening
Johannesburg
Lunch
Railway
Sandwiches
University
Carrying
Followed
Returning
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I sometimes say I am the extinguished professor, because what I'd really like to be is the postdoc, to have that kind of thinking. I think one can get very set in his ways with titles like 'distinguished professor.'
Sydney Brenner / Researcher
Distinguished
Titles
Extinguished
Professor
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People have always asked whether evolution is constantly driving onwards and upwards. Is there always going to be improvement? The answer is no: evolution is a progression of form and function, but it is not purposeful.
Sydney Brenner / Researcher
Function
Improvement
Progression
Purposeful
Upwards
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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 / Researcher
Bases
Leslie
Plates
Brick
Model
Jack
Lined
Screwed
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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 / Researcher
Graduate Students
Graduate
Labourer
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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 / Researcher
Atmosphere
Challenges
Harmonious
Institute
Morris
People
Philip
Pursue
Hoped
Molecular
Sciences
Young People
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I think peer review is hindering science. In fact, I think it has become a completely corrupt system. It's corrupt in many ways, in that scientists and academics have handed over to the editors of these journals the ability to make judgment on science and scientists.
Sydney Brenner / Researcher
Editors
Judgment
Academics
Corrupt
Handed
Journals
Peer
Review
Scientists
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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.
Sydney Brenner / Researcher
Science
Cells
Mean
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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.
Sydney Brenner / Researcher
Long
Lying
Numbers
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