Sydney Brenner Quotes

It's not just exciting to build things but to explore new fields and to recognize what comes with that is a lot of uncertainty.

Life is about trying things to see if they work.

If you want to be a visionary, go out and have some accidents!

Comfort is the enemy of creativity.

What is the use of going right over the old track again? There is an adder in the path which your own feet have worn. You must make tracks into the Unknown.

We crave explanations for most everything, but innovation and progress happen when we allow ourselves to embrace uncertainty.

All progress is experimental.

I started to think about what drives innovation and what its social significance might be. The next step was to think innovators are taking a leap into the unknown. That led me to the thought that it is also a source of fun and employee engagement.

I think we always move from imitation to assimilation to innovation, but I can't name you 20 people outside those we've already recognized who ever got to point three: innovation.

I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.

What makes our world so fascinating is that continuously there are novel and creative ideas spurring people to leave old ways and try something new.

It is well that the beaten ways of the world get trodden into mud : we are thus forced to seek new paths and pick out new lines of life.

With any new medium, the full power is only unearthed with experimentation.

We like to try doing new things in the shows and doing things that we haven't done before.

With innovation, there is always risk.

There is no map, and charting a path ahead will not be easy. We will need to invent, which means we will need to experiment.

The fun is in always building something. After it's built, you play with it awhile and then you're through. You see, we never do the same thing twice around here. We're always opening up new doors.

I'm interested in new worlds, new universes, new challenges. I always said the only reason to make a film is not for the result but for what you learn for the next one.

For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.

Pure innovation is more gross than error.

I think there's always room for more innovation and new things.

I think I've always been slightly addicted to not repeating myself. When you're doing something the first time around, it's often the best time. I think 'Blank Project' is about carrying on. Its that thing where you're making something because you have to, but you don't know how or why.

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

I learned from my dad that change and experimentation are constants and important. You have to keep trying new things.

I feel like every time I take on a movie, it's important that the possibility of failure exists, and of the unknown, because it's a challenge to do something I haven't done before and something I have to try to work out.