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Sydney Brenner

British Scientist

Born: Jan 13, 1927

First People School Science Work Year

Related authors: Alfred Russel Wallace Arthur Eddington Derek Harold Richard Barton Gregory Bateson Humphry Davy John Sulston Mary Leakey Thomas Browne

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

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

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The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent. Sydney Brenner

Computer Between Nonexistent Modern

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

Together Remember Side Everything Small Clearly Lined Very Jack Model Screwed Room Leslie Brick Original Plates Bases

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

Home Morning Travel Walk Every Lunch Way Station Carrying Johannesburg Followed Returning Train Same Sandwiches Evening Lived Railway University

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

School Year Anatomy See Physiology Had Courses Began Begun Cells After Interested Moving Functions Medical Medical School Second

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

Science People Gift Challenge Young Philip Harmonious High Hoped Atmosphere Purpose Pursue Could Morris Environment Institute Sciences Intellectual Where Young People Create Molecular Company Founded

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

The art of doing science is doing the important things first. Sydney Brenner

Art Science First Important Important Things Doing Things

I cannot stand all the people who take themselves very seriously, who cannot just laugh at themselves. Sydney Brenner

People Seriously Laugh Take Very Just Cannot Themselves Stand Who

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

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