Frances Arnold

We are going to see a steady stream, I predict, of Nobel prizes coming out of chemistry and given to women. ”

I was the first female cab driver in the city of Pittsburgh. ”

I tried lots of things and never stopped learning. ”

I can't imagine not being able to read and write, or make these connections from literature and philosophy that have helped inform my understanding of evolution. ”

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. ”

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. ”

I know how to do science. I know how to make things. I don't know how to run a company. Now that's a really tough job. ”

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? ”

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. ”

I don't sit around feeling sorry for myself. There's always somebody who's a lot worse off than you. ”