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Frances Arnold
Frances Arnold
American Scientist
Born: Jul 25, 1956
Chemistry Evolution Life Nature World You
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
Best Me You Funniest Thing Someone Always Doing Done Asked Now Ever Thing Funniest
I was employed at the Solar Energy Research Institute in the late '70s when Carter was president, and as a country, we had a goal of renewable energy development. Frances Arnold
Solar Country Energy Research President Late Carter Had Development Institute Employed Renewable Renewable Energy Goal
Only engineers would do something like random mutagenesis. Frances Arnold
Random Would Something Only Like Engineers
Only by ignorance is science threatened. Frances Arnold
Ignorance Science Threatened Only
What I want to do is demonstrate that biology can learn how to make a vast array of molecules that people thought were outside the realm of biology. Frances Arnold
People Thought Biology Vast Outside Make Learn How Array Demonstrate Were Want Realm Molecules
My laboratory uses evolution to design new enzymes. No one really knows how to design them - they are tremendously complicated. But we are learning how to use evolution to make new ones, just as nature does. Frances Arnold
Nature Learning Complicated Design Tremendously Evolution No-One New Make Knows Does How New Ones Laboratory Just Them Really Use Uses
I don't sit around feeling sorry for myself. There's always somebody who's a lot worse off than you. Frances Arnold
Myself You Somebody Feeling Sorry Sit Worse Around Always Lot Off Than
I was very head-strong, and this was the Vietnam War era - You did not listen to your parents or other authority figures. You didn't share their values. No one did in my circle. It was OK to rebel. Frances Arnold
War You Circle Values Parents Other OK No-One Share Era Very Authority Did Authority Figures Listen Vietnam Vietnam War Your Figures Rebel
I wanted to rewrite the code of life, to make new molecular machines that would solve human problems. Frances Arnold
Life Problems Machines Would Solve New Make Human Rewrite Wanted Molecular Molecular Machines Code
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 to include silicon in organic molecules. And once you can do it somewhere in the universe, it's probably being done. Frances Arnold
Life You You Can Do It Somewhere Organic Universe Once Possibilities Possibility Easy Silicon Know Exist Very Done Being Being Done Molecules Shown Include
I tried lots of things and never stopped learning. Frances Arnold
Learning Tried I Tried Never Lots Stopped Things
All my projects are about sustainability, bioremediation, making things in a cleaner fashion. Frances Arnold
Fashion Projects About Cleaner Making Sustainability Things
No human can design a good enzyme, yet we are surrounded by them after 3.5 billion years of work by evolution. Frances Arnold
Work Good Design Evolution Years Surrounded Human After Them Billion
Proteins aren't designed, they're evolved. Frances Arnold
Evolved Proteins Designed
People are really interested in these fundamental questions: Why is life based on carbon and not silicon? Frances Arnold
Life People Silicon Questions Interested Really Fundamental Based Why Carbon Fundamental Questions
Evolution, to me, is the best designer of all time. Frances Arnold
Time Best Me Evolution All-Time Designer
I see a future in which nature gives us a helping hand. Instead of destroying the natural world, why can't we use it to solve the kinds of problems that we are facing? Frances Arnold
Future Nature Natural World Problems Destroying I See Solve Kinds See Gives Facing Instead Hand Which Us Use Natural World Helping Helping Hand Why
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
Technology Science Women Humanity Challenge Science And Technology Incredibly Benefit Through Take Exciting Encourage Brains Want Use Fun
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 order to use silicon. Frances Arnold
Strong Living Systems Would All-Around Silicon Tied Around Rocks Up Very Order Break Use Bonds
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
Life Nature Human Being Feeling Build Too Silicon Between Human Being Carbon Bonds
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
Best You Thought Control Sense Respond Give Environment Anticipate Up Flexible Adapt
Inside of a living cell there are thousands of proteins that enable it to make more of itself and make your malaria drug, for instance. We don't understand those. We don't understand how they work together. Frances Arnold
Work Together Living Those Thousands Inside More Instance Make Proteins Understand Enable How Malaria Itself Cell Work Together Your
This innovation machine that's evolution, we can use it to do all sorts of interesting things. Frances Arnold
Innovation Machine Evolution Sort Interesting Interesting Things Use Things
Science and technology are going to be the basis for many of the solutions to social problems. Frances Arnold
Technology Science Problems Science And Technology Solutions Going Social Social Problems Many Basis
Mother Nature has been the best bioengineer in history. Why not harness the evolutionary process to design proteins? Frances Arnold
Best Nature History Mother Design Harness Evolutionary Has-Been Proteins Mother Nature Been Process Why Why Not
I was used to being the only woman in everything... I didn't even think about it. Men were my role models - there's nothing wrong with that. Frances Arnold
Woman Men Nothing Think Everything About Only Wrong Were Role Role Models Models Being Used Even
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