Carbon Quote by Frances Arnold

My feeling is that if a human being can coax life to build bonds between silicon and carbon, nature can do it too.

— Frances Arnold

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

— Paul MacCready

“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

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

— Arthur C. Clarke

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

— 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

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

— Steven Johnson

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

What if life is not carbon-based? Can life exist as a gas or a plasma? Could planets or stars in some sense be alive?…

— David Grinspoon

The way life manages information involves a logical structure that differs fundamentally from mere complex chemistry. Therefore chemistry alone will not explain life's origin,…

— Paul Davies

Imagine walking into a grocery there is a jar sitting there with a lid on it saying it's not carbon. That is ridiculous. It's…

— William McDonough

Life exists in the universe only because the carbon atom possesses certain exceptional properties.

— James Jeans