Sydney Brenner

He told me that Francis Crick and Jim Watson had solved the structure of DNA, so we decided to go across to Cambridge to see it. This was in April of 1953.

I completed the first three years of primary school in one year and was admitted to the local school the age of six directly into the fourth year, some two years younger than all my contemporaries.

There was still food rationing in England and life was difficult all through my 2 year stay in Oxford.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.

I just had an idea that went right over my head.

We define ourselves as intelligent. That's odd, because we're doing the definition - We're creating our own definition and saying, 'We are intelligent!'