I do something to make things nature never made but which is useful to humans. — Frances Arnold Copy Share Image
I did all sorts of things that you wouldn't normally find on an engineer's docket, but it made an educated person out… — Frances Arnold Copy Share Image
This innovation machine that's evolution, we can use it to do all sorts of interesting things. — Frances Arnold Copy Share Image
All my projects are about sustainability, bioremediation, making things in a cleaner fashion. — Frances Arnold Copy Share Image
I get called lots of things - a biochemist, a molecular biologist, a chemical engineer - and I guess I am all… — 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
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
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
