"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."

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Source : Sydney Brenner (2001). “A life in science”

Sydney Brenner

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“Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it.”

Source : Martha Gellhorn (1988). “The Face of War”, p.336, Atlantic Monthly Press
“We can only learn about creativity through our own experience of it.”
“I have a movie coming out called Spun, which will be at the Toronto Film Fest.”
“I played Chang here under the lights here. I think that was '91. Another good match. I've played a lot more good matches under the lights than I played bad. You tend to remember some of the bad ones unfortunately.”
“Increase your faith. Proclaim your faith. Let your faith show.”
“Do you clean yourself before you take a bath?”
“The funny thing is that the studio that we recorded in was the same studio that Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby and Nat King Cole used to warm up their voices in before they went across the street to CBS Radio. The owner has preserved it exactly the way it was in 1925. It was such a perfect coincidence that we were doing music inspired by that stuff in that room. It was incredible.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“It's odd to think we might have been Sun, moon and stars unto each other; Only I turned down one little street As you went up another.”

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