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My whole interest is, how do you use evolution as an innovation engine? How does evolution solve new problems that life faces? And to have a system that can create a whole new chemical bond that biology hasn't done before, to me, demonstrates the power of nature to innovate. - Frances Arnold
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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
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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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Instead of studying what biology has already made, we have to imagine what biology could make. You can say, 'Oh, I want a cure for cancer,' but that doesn't tell you what evolutionary pathway will take you from here to there. What are the intermediate steps? - Frances Arnold
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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
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I was the first female cab driver in the city of Pittsburgh. - Frances Arnold
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I'd like to see what fraction of things that chemists have figured out we could actually teach nature to do. Then we really could replace chemical factories with bacteria. - Frances Arnold
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All my projects are about sustainability, bioremediation, making things in a cleaner fashion. - Frances Arnold
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I'm interested in using evolution to move forward into the future, to get biology to do a lot of new chemistry for us. - Frances Arnold
#Biology
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The DNA-encoded catalytic machinery of the cell can rapidly learn to promote new chemical reactions when we provide new reagents and the appropriate incentive in the form of artificial selection. - Frances Arnold
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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
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I learned how to navigate the world, and life's potholes, in Pittsburgh. - Frances Arnold
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The fuel for evolution is diversity, with natural selection leading to continuous adaptations and improvements in Nature's handiwork. - Frances Arnold
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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
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Life is not a piece of cake, and it certainly is not for many of the people I know. - Frances Arnold
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What we need is a strong education system that allows creativity to grow and encourages students to be interested in science and technology. - Frances Arnold
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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
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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
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Mother Nature has been the best bioengineer in history. Why not harness the evolutionary process to design proteins? - Frances Arnold
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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
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Science and technology are going to be the basis for many of the solutions to social problems. - Frances Arnold
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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
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I studied mechanical engineering at Princeton and worked on solar energy after graduation. - Frances Arnold
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