We’ve been modifying the biological world at the level of DNA for thousands of years. Somehow there is this new fear of what we already have been doing and that fear has limited our ability to provide real solutions. Frances Arnold Read Quote
I studied mechanical engineering at Princeton and worked on solar energy after graduation. Frances Arnold Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
We all need friends, and friends are there to hold you up when nothing else can. Frances Arnold Read Quote
For some reason, there are political forces that somehow feel threatened by honest inquiry. How can you be threatened by wanting to know the facts? Frances Arnold Read Quote
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 Read Quote
No human can design a good enzyme, yet we are surrounded by them after 3.5 billion years of work by evolution. Frances Arnold Read Quote
There are lot of brilliant women in chemistry, a little later than some of the men, but they are amazing. Frances Arnold Read Quote
