I learned how to navigate the world, and life's potholes, in Pittsburgh. — Frances Arnold Copy Share Image
I wanted to rewrite the code of life, to make new molecular machines that would solve human problems. — Frances Arnold Copy Share Image
Life is not a piece of cake, and it certainly is not for many of the people I know. — Frances Arnold Copy Share Image
I've done that my whole life - I've taken the way people think and turned it on its head. — Frances Arnold Copy Share Image
My feeling is that if a human being can coax life to build bonds between silicon and carbon, nature can do it… — Frances Arnold Copy Share Image
Silicon-based life on Earth doesn't make sense, but perhaps it would in some totally different environment. — Frances Arnold Copy Share Image
People are really interested in these fundamental questions: Why is life based on carbon and not silicon? — Frances Arnold Copy Share Image
Inside of a living cell there are thousands of proteins that enable it to make more of itself and make your malaria… — Frances Arnold Copy Share Image
The code of life is like a Beethoven symphony. We have not yet learned how to write music like that. But evolution… — Frances Arnold Copy Share Image
My whole interest is, how do you use evolution as an innovation engine? How does evolution solve new problems that life faces?… — Frances Arnold Copy Share Image
Enzymes catalyze all the reactions of life. They're what allow you to extract materials and energy from your environment and turn that… — Frances Arnold Copy Share Image
In the universe of possibilities that exist for life, we've shown that it is a very easy possibility for life as we… — Frances Arnold Copy Share Image
The real frontier is making these hybrid systems where you expand the capabilities of biology with chemistry. — Frances Arnold Copy Share
Instead of studying what biology has already made, we have to imagine what biology could make. You can say, 'Oh, I want a cure… — Frances Arnold Copy Share
We are going to see a steady stream, I predict, of Nobel prizes coming out of chemistry and given to women. — Frances Arnold Copy Share
I decided that I wanted to become an engineer of the biological world, specifically a protein engineer. — Frances Arnold Copy Share
I get these students who come in and say, I want to help people. I say, people get plenty of help. Why don't you… — Frances Arnold Copy Share
Pittsburgh was a wonderful place to grow up - diverse and complex, one could go from one culture to a completely different one in… — Frances Arnold Copy Share
I wanted to rewrite the code of life, to make new molecular machines that would solve human problems. — Frances Arnold Copy Share
I was used to being the only woman in everything... I didn't even think about it. Men were my role models - there's nothing… — Frances Arnold Copy Share
To survive and even thrive in a changing world, nature offers another great lesson: the survivors are those who at the least adapt to… — Frances Arnold Copy Share
Enzymes are masters of chemistry. They evolved over billions of years to perform specific biological functions. They make complex materials with virtually no waste. — Frances Arnold Copy Share
This innovation machine that's evolution, we can use it to do all sorts of interesting things. — Frances Arnold Copy Share
Cellulose has physical and chemical properties that make it difficult to access and difficult to break down. — Frances Arnold Copy Share
