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Sydney Brenner Quotes

1927–2019 South Africa

Sydney Brenner (13 January 1927 – 5 April 2019) was a South African biologist and winner of the 2002 Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine, shared with H. Robert Horvitz and John Sulston.

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

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 my research these two problems have been closely intertwined.

For many years it was widely held that molecular biology was a completely useless subject, a 'fundamental' science of no interest to those working on practical matters

Even God wouldn’t get a grant today because somebody on the committee would say, oh those were very interesting experiments (creating the universe), but they’ve never been repeated. And then someone else would say, yes and he did it a long time ago, what’s he done recently? And a third would say, to top it all, he published it all in an un-refereed journal (The Bible).

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Sydney Brenner (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.