40 Quotes by Sydney Brenner

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The thing I'm most interested in is the nervous system. How do brains grow? How do genes build complicated nervous systems?

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.

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

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