Bacteria Quote by Frances Arnold

We're seeing a move toward making things that either chemistry cannot make or can't make efficiently but biology does.

— Frances Arnold

In the lab, we're discovering that nature can do chemistry we never dreamed was possible.

— Frances Arnold

I consider nature a vast chemical laboratory in which all kinds of composition and decompositions are formed.

— Antoine Lavoisier

“All living things affect their environment by making and transforming chemicals, and”

— Peter Godfrey-Smith

We don't know nearly enough about the complexities of Nature. If we think we can eliminate natural ecosystems and substitute prosthetic devices, i.e. clean…

— E. O. Wilson

Living organisms are created by chemistry. We are huge packages of chemicals.

— David Christian

I think chemists always think they know more than they know, because nature has a lot of possible pathways it can try.

— David Grinspoon

In my lab, we're interested in the transition from chemistry to early biology on the early earth.

— Jack W. Szostak

Anything that can be done chemically can be done by other means.

— William S. Burroughs

What if, every time I started to invent something, I asked, 'How would nature solve this?'

— Janine Benyus

Science is now the craft of the manipulation, substitution and deflection of the forces of nature. What I see coming is a gigantic slaughterhouse,…

— Erwin Chargaff

As soon as we can wrest from Nature the secret of the internal structure of the compounds produced by her, chemical science can then…

— Otto Wallach