Frances Arnold

The real frontier is making these hybrid systems where you expand the capabilities of biology with chemistry.

— Frances Arnold

Instead of studying what biology has already made, we have to imagine what biology could make. You can say, 'Oh, I want…

— Frances Arnold

We are going to see a steady stream, I predict, of Nobel prizes coming out of chemistry and given to women.

— Frances Arnold

I decided that I wanted to become an engineer of the biological world, specifically a protein engineer.

— Frances Arnold

There's plenty of ordinary Nobel laureates.

— Frances Arnold

When I started engineering proteins I didn't know how hard it would be.

— Frances Arnold

I get these students who come in and say, I want to help people. I say, people get plenty of help. Why…

— Frances Arnold

Pittsburgh was a wonderful place to grow up - diverse and complex, one could go from one culture to a completely different…

— Frances Arnold

I wanted to rewrite the code of life, to make new molecular machines that would solve human problems.

— Frances Arnold

I was used to being the only woman in everything... I didn't even think about it. Men were my role models -…

— Frances Arnold

I feel a responsibility to encourage everyone to excel in science.

— Frances Arnold

To survive and even thrive in a changing world, nature offers another great lesson: the survivors are those who at the least…

— Frances Arnold

Enzymes are masters of chemistry. They evolved over billions of years to perform specific biological functions. They make complex materials with virtually…

— Frances Arnold

This innovation machine that's evolution, we can use it to do all sorts of interesting things.

— Frances Arnold

Cellulose has physical and chemical properties that make it difficult to access and difficult to break down.

— Frances Arnold

Silicon-based life on Earth doesn't make sense, but perhaps it would in some totally different environment.

— Frances Arnold

I am a student of evolution and adaptation.

— Frances Arnold

The fuel for evolution is diversity, with natural selection leading to continuous adaptations and improvements in Nature's handiwork.

— Frances Arnold

Only by ignorance is science threatened.

— Frances Arnold

So many things in my life have gone awry.

— Frances Arnold

The biological world always seems poised to innovate.

— Frances Arnold

Human beings have been manipulating the biological world for thousands of years without understanding how DNA codes function.

— Frances Arnold

Engineering the biological world was even more interesting than engineering the mechanical world.

— Frances Arnold

I'm interested in using evolution to move forward into the future, to get biology to do a lot of new chemistry for…

— Frances Arnold

Evolution is good for optimising and that is well understood. But evolution also creates things that no one knew were even possible.

— Frances Arnold