Frances Arnold Quotes

Frances Arnold

Profession : Scientist

Birth : July 25, 1956

To survive and even thrive in a changing world, nature offers another great lesson: the survivors are those who at the least adapt to change, or even better learn to benefit from change and grow intellectually and personally. That means careful listening and constant learning.

Frances Arnold

Science and technology are going to be the basis for many of the solutions to social problems.

Frances Arnold

Give up the thought that you have control. You don't. The best you can do is adapt, anticipate, be flexible, sense the environment and respond.

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

Life is not a piece of cake, and it certainly is not for many of the people I know.

Frances Arnold

This innovation machine that's evolution, we can use it to do all sorts of interesting things.

Frances Arnold

There are lot of brilliant women in chemistry, a little later than some of the men, but they are amazing.

Frances Arnold

So many things in my life have gone awry.

Frances Arnold

Most innovative things are not obvious to other people at the time. You have to believe in yourself. If you've got a good idea, follow it even though others tell you it's not.

Frances Arnold

The code of life is like a Beethoven symphony. We have not yet learned how to write music like that. But evolution does it very well. I am learning how to use evolution to compose new music.

Frances Arnold

Only by ignorance is science threatened.

Frances Arnold

Nature's made much more dangerous things than I ever will.

Frances Arnold

What I want to do is encourage women to take on this incredibly exciting and fun challenge to use their brains for the benefit of humanity but through science and technology.

Frances Arnold

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

Frances Arnold

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

We've been tinkering with nature for tens of thousands of years - look at a poodle! So we've created all sorts of organisms and biological things that wouldn't be here were it not for us.

Frances Arnold

Nature is solving all sorts of problems that we throw at her - how to degrade plastic bottles, how to degrade pesticides and herbicides and antibiotics. She creates new enzymes in response to that all the time, in real time.

Frances Arnold

Someone asked me 'What's the funniest thing or what's the best thing that you've ever done?' It's always what I'm doing now.

Frances Arnold

The fuel for evolution is diversity, with natural selection leading to continuous adaptations and improvements in Nature's handiwork.

Frances Arnold

We share deep admiration for evolution, a force of Nature that has led to the finest chemistry of all time, and to all living things on this planet.

Frances Arnold