What I find most interesting is what nature can do if you only ask. — Frances Arnold Copy Share Image
I do something to make things nature never made but which is useful to humans. — Frances Arnold Copy Share Image
In the lab, we're discovering that nature can do chemistry we never dreamed was possible. — Frances Arnold Copy Share Image
Mother Nature has been the best bioengineer in history. Why not harness the evolutionary process to design proteins? — Frances Arnold Copy Share Image
We've been tinkering with nature for tens of thousands of years - look at a poodle! So we've created all sorts of… — Frances Arnold Copy Share Image
I see a future in which nature gives us a helping hand. Instead of destroying the natural world, why can't we use… — Frances Arnold Copy Share Image
The fuel for evolution is diversity, with natural selection leading to continuous adaptations and improvements in Nature's handiwork. — Frances Arnold Copy Share Image
Isobutanol is not a natural product, but we evolved an enzyme that makes it possible to convert plant sugars to this precursor… — Frances Arnold Copy Share Image
My laboratory uses evolution to design new enzymes. No one really knows how to design them - they are tremendously complicated. But… — 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
I'd like to see what fraction of things that chemists have figured out we could actually teach nature to do. Then we… — Frances Arnold Copy Share Image
Nature is solving all sorts of problems that we throw at her - how to degrade plastic bottles, how to degrade pesticides… — 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
To survive and even thrive in a changing world, nature offers another great lesson: the survivors are those who at the least… — Frances Arnold Copy Share Image
We share deep admiration for evolution, a force of Nature that has led to the finest chemistry of all time, and to… — 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
