Sydney Brenner Quotes
The moment I saw the model and heard about the complementing base pairs I realized that it was the key to understanding all the problems in biology we had found intractable - it was the birth of molecular biology.
Sydney Brenner
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The mood in which my book was conceived and executed, was in fact to some extent a passing one.
F. H. Bradley
My own wandering blood comes from my seafaring grandfather, who, after he had left the sea and settled on shore, still governed his house by a ship's rules.
W. H. Davies
I'm not just a model who plays volleyball, or a volleyball player who supports herself modeling. I'm a female athlete personality.
Gabrielle Reece
I'm constantly trying to keep people guessing as to what I'm doing, and I will spend enormous amounts of time looking at manuscripts and asking questions, and people will say, 'I know what his next book is about.'
Dan Brown
I work in my attic, and the view is next door's chimney stack.
Malorie Blackman
Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.
Victor Hugo
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer. I am surprised, as well as delighted, when this happens, it is such a rare use he would make of me, as if he were acquainted with the tool.
Henry David Thoreau
Anger is a symptom, a way of cloaking and expressing feelings too awful to experience directly-hurt, bitterness, grief and, most of all, fear.
Joan Rivers
'A large fraction of the flaws in software development are due to programmers not fully understanding all the possible states their code may execute in.'
John Carmack
The people I've respected most in the industry over the years - Paul Newman, for instance. I just loved the way he handled growing old on-screen. It's understanding that you're now basically a character actor.
George Clooney
Biology textbooks tell you the opposite action of sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems. One produces cold, blue-white anger, the other flushed apoplexy. Roy's was the pink sort. He was a big blonde man, with Viking bristle to eyebrows and mustache.
Alison Jolly
The moment I saw the model and heard about the complementing base pairs I realized that it was the key to understanding all the problems in biology we had found intractable - it was the birth of molecular biology.
Sydney Brenner
