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Frances Arnold

Evolution is good for optimising and that is well understood. But evolution also creates things that no one knew were even possible.

– Frances Arnold

Frances Arnold

Microbes such as bacteria and yeast use enzymes to make fuels from biomass. We use directed evolution to perfect those enzymes and make new fuels efficiently.

– Frances Arnold

Frances Arnold

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

– Frances Arnold

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 and tissue and fat. That’s all done by enzymes. They’re pretty remarkable chemists – they’re even better than Caltech chemists.

– Frances Arnold

Frances Arnold

Engineering the biological world was even more interesting than engineering the mechanical world.

– Frances Arnold

Frances Arnold

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

Frances Arnold

My feeling is that we can genetically encode almost any kind of chemistry. We just have to learn how to do that.

– Frances Arnold

Frances Arnold

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

Frances Arnold

For me, I was always the only woman in my cohort, first as a mechanical engineering undergraduate student, then as a chemical engineering graduate student. There were very few women getting degrees in those fields at the time. My role models were men – great men role models.

– Frances Arnold

Frances Arnold

Doing science at the highest level is hard for anyone. It’s hard for women, and it’s hard for the men. And we need to have supportive mentors and role models we can look up to.

– Frances Arnold

Frances Arnold

I was lucky to be passionate about a field that was full of opportunity.

– Frances Arnold

Frances Arnold

I meet so many young people who want to plan out their lives and want a recipe. They want me to tell them how to succeed. I didn’t follow a recipe. I followed my instincts.

– Frances Arnold

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