Sydney Brenner Quotes

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.

Sydney Brenner

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• Today, only 2 percent of the people know the name of someone serving in uniform. That means 2 percent of your listeners can actually conjure up the image of someone wearing the uniform of the military of the United States.

  

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• I grew up watching Salman Khan and Arnold Schwarzenegger, who have always juggled fitness with acting. In real life, I'm a fitness freak. Besides, it is nice to look at an actor who is fit, and if you become a role model, that's a perk.

  

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• One of the things I love about jazz music is that intent is first and execution is second. In classical music, execution is first and intent is second, meaning that you must first learn a piece before you can truly add your interpretation to it.

  

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• Haiti is in desperate poverty.

  

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• Whether you are a genius or an idiot, a thief or, like me, a Zen priest who has cultivated the mind for 30 years – the mind anyway is subject to conditions.

  

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• I was neitherLiving nor dead, and I knew nothing, Looking into the heart of light, the silence.

  

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• I read my eyes out and can't read half enough. … The more one reads the more one sees we have to read.

  

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• Ben, that funeral will be massive! They'll come from Maine, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire! All the old-timers with the strange license plates - that boy will be thunderstruck, Ben, because he never realized - I am known! Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey - I am known, Ben, and he'll see it with his eyes once and for all.

  

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• Fierce and pure, I was the theater of a fairyland restored to life.

  

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• In science, as in business, there must be structures that ensure the well endowed do not use their position to block competition.

  

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• 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.

  

  Sydney Brenner
  • Science
  • Support
  • Risks