Engineering Quote by Frances Arnold

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

— Frances Arnold

Using the power of protein engineering and evolution, we can convince enzymes to take what they do poorly and do it really well.

— Frances Arnold

Proteins aren't designed, they're evolved.

— Frances Arnold

Protein engineering is a technology of molecular machines - of molecular machines that are part of replicators - and so it comes from an…

— K. Eric Drexler

I wanted to make enzymes that would solve human problems, not just problems for a cell that makes them.

— Frances Arnold

By then, I was making the slow transition from classical biochemistry to molecular biology and becoming increasingly preoccupied with how genes act and how…

— Paul Berg

Mother Nature has been the best bioengineer in history. Why not harness the evolutionary process to design proteins?

— Frances Arnold

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

— Frances Arnold

“Part of the problem was that no one knew exactly how a cell took a nucleic acid sequence and turned it into a blob…

— Matthew Cobb

I had been impressed by the fact that biological systems were based on molecular machines and that we were learning to design and build…

— K. Eric Drexler

Aside from the equivalent of blowing up the lab or letting a pathogen escape, the only failure is spending too long or too much…

— Scott D. Anthony

No human can design a good enzyme, yet we are surrounded by them after 3.5 billion years of work by evolution.

— Frances Arnold