Engineering Quote by Frances Arnold

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

— 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

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

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

— 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

Proteins aren't designed, they're evolved.

— 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

Creating anything is hard.

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

“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

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

— Frances Arnold

It takes a lot of hard work to make something simple.

— Steve Jobs

I was originally going to become a biochemist, but it just got way too complicated.

— Eugene Jarvis