Being Quote by Frances Arnold

People are really interested in these fundamental questions: Why is life based on carbon and not silicon?

— Frances Arnold

“Today, a science fiction writer looking for a futuristic tale of silicon dominance would not pick upon the chemistry of silicon so much as…

— John D. Barrow

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

— Frances Arnold

Silicon-based life may be impossible for one other reason: silicon bonds readily dissolve in water.

— Steven Johnson

The surviving intelligent life form on Earth is not going to be carbon-based; it's going to be silicon-based.

— Paul MacCready

Silicon is all around but it's tied up in rocks... with these very strong silicon-oxygen bonds that living systems would have to break in…

— Frances Arnold

In the universe of possibilities that exist for life, we've shown that it is a very easy possibility for life as we know it…

— Frances Arnold

Whether we are based on carbon or on silicon makes no fundamental difference we should each be treated with appropriate respect.

— Arthur C. Clarke

Ultimately, life is a chemical interaction.

— Heidi Hammel

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

— 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

Nature is with us if we can learn how to align with it and not break the basic laws that generate life.

— Frances Moore Lappé