Sydney Brenner

"Well, I think my skills are in getting things started. ... In fact, that's what I enjoy most — it's the opening game. And I'm afraid that once it gets past that point I get rather bored with it and wa…"

"Even God wouldn’t get a grant today because somebody on the committee would say, oh those were very interesting experiments , but they’ve never been repeated. And then someone else would say, yes and …"

"I think for the first time we can attack the fundamental biology of man."

"Then we started clinical work ... and I just wasn't suited to that. I didn't like ... the whole structure of a teaching hospital. That is, I felt very much that treating patients as things is the wron…"

"A lot of the things that have been accomplished in science have been accomplished on the basis of ignorance … in the sense that you import into the science people from outside. Because once you have a…"

"Current ideas of the uses of Model Organisms spring form the exemplars of the past and choosing the right organism for one's research is as important as finding the right problems to work on. In all m…"