Sydney Brenner Quotes

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

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My boy and I move. We have this game where if we dress in a particular item of clothing, we have to do a different movement. A hat means 20 jumps - that sort of thing. When I put a scarf on, my son has to drop down and do push-ups, immediately. He thinks it's really funny.

Magnus Scheving
- Different
- Game
- Funny
I have a blog in Chinese, which you can follow, Chinese signs. But I don't even update at all, often I don't.

Bai Ling
- You
- Chinese
- Follow
There are a lot of female directors in documentary, very talented. But it's always lower budget.

Patricia Riggen
- Very
- Budget
- Documentary
I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn't.

Jack Dee
Pre-history tells us that our species used to be a hunter-gatherer society. This means that the job of raising a family was split 50-50 between the men and the women - the man's 50 percent share was to sit in the woods with a sharp stick, waiting for something to hunt to wander by, and the woman's 50 percent was to do everything else.

W. Bruce Cameron
- Men
- Women
- Family
I had in mind a message, although I hope it doesn't intrude too badly, persuading Americans, and especially Southerners, of the critical importance of land and our vanishing natural environment and wildlife.

E. O. Wilson
- Mind
- Hope
- Environment