Frances Arnold

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

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. ”

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

Evolution, to me, is the best designer of all time. ”

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. ”

No human can design a good enzyme, yet we are surrounded by them after 3.5 billion years of work by evolution. ”

I'm interested in using evolution to move forward into the future, to get biology to do a lot of new chemistry for us. ”

There's nothing like evolution for engineering beautiful organisms. ”

Using the power of protein engineering and evolution, we can convince enzymes to take what they do poorly and do it really well. ”

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