Biology Quote by Frances Arnold

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

— Frances Arnold

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

— Frances Arnold

My laboratory uses evolution to design new enzymes. No one really knows how to design them - they are tremendously complicated. But we are…

— Frances Arnold

Enzymes are masters of chemistry. They evolved over billions of years to perform specific biological functions. They make complex materials with virtually no waste.

— Frances Arnold

Proteins aren't designed, they're evolved.

— Frances Arnold

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

— Frances Arnold

I realized that the way most people were going about protein engineering was doomed failure.

— Frances Arnold

Enzymes catalyze all the reactions of life. They're what allow you to extract materials and energy from your environment and turn that into muscle…

— Frances Arnold

Our cells engage in protein production, and many of those proteins are enzymes responsible for the chemistry of life.

— Randy Schekman

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

— 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

Think about the whole world of biological complex sciences. We still don't understand the way a protein folds the way it does.

— Ahmed H. Zewail