Earth Quote by 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

“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

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

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 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

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

— Frances Arnold

There's no more silicon in Silicon Valley. It's all iPhone apps.

— Mary Lou Jepsen

If we hadn't put a man on the moon, there wouldn't be a Silicon Valley today

— John Sculley

The future economic success of Silicon Valley will be contingent on whether we have a good quality of life. World-class workers will only want…

— Carl Guardino

I hope to someday live in a world where there are lots more Silicon Valleys.

— Marc Andreessen

“At times, Larry accused Elon of being “specieist”: treating certain life forms as inferior just because they were silicon-based rather than carbon-based.”

— Max Tegmark