I realized that the way most people were going about protein engineering was doomed failure. — 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
I had to grow up, reach a certain age where I see people do have something to show me. — Frances Arnold Copy Share Image
What I want to do is demonstrate that biology can learn how to make a vast array of molecules that people thought… — Frances Arnold Copy Share Image
I get these students who come in and say, I want to help people. I say, people get plenty of help. Why… — Frances Arnold Copy Share Image
I meet so many young people who want to plan out their lives and want a recipe. They want me to tell… — Frances Arnold Copy Share Image
In academics, it's getting your voice out that's important. It's getting somebody to listen to you. I had no problem with that.… — 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
The real frontier is making these hybrid systems where you expand the capabilities of biology with chemistry. — Frances Arnold Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
I decided that I wanted to become an engineer of the biological world, specifically a protein engineer. — Frances Arnold Copy Share Image
When I started engineering proteins I didn't know how hard it would be. — Frances Arnold Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
I wanted to rewrite the code of life, to make new molecular machines that would solve human problems. — Frances Arnold Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
