Frances Arnold Quotes

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.

We're seeing a move toward making things that either chemistry cannot make or can't make efficiently but biology does.

Industrial opportunities are going to stem more from the biological sciences than from chemistry and physics. I see biology as being the greatest area of scientific breakthroughs in the next generation.

Biological engineering is not necessarily understanding systems but rather, I want to be able to design and build biological systems to perform particular applications.

How we understand our own selves and how we work with our DNA software has implications that will affect everything from vaccine development to new approaches to antibiotics, new sources of food, new sources of chemicals, even potentially new sources of energy.

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

I see, in the future, bioengineered almost everything you can imagine that we use.

If you can write DNA, you're no longer limited to 'what is' but to what you could make.

Bio-technology is the science of the future.

Ribofunk indicates a focus on biology as the upcoming big science in the way that physics was for the last 50 or 100 years. If you look for a biological thread throughout science fiction, you can find it, but it's a very small percentage of the total. That's been changing in the last few years.

Manufacturing takes place in very large facilities. If you want to build a computer chip, you need a giant semiconductor fabrication facility. But nature can grow complex molecular machines using nothing more than a plant.

I had been impressed by the fact that biological systems were based on molecular machines and that we were learning to design and build these sorts of things.

In chemicals, Synthetic Genomics is one of my real loves.

Biology is now accelerating at a pace faster than Moore's Law.

The potential for synthetic biology and biotechnology is vast; we all have an opportunity to create the future together.

My feeling is that if a human being can coax life to build bonds between silicon and carbon, nature can do it too.

In the past, biology has been a backwater type of activity - a bunch of nerds in a lab. Now the sheer potential of biology to re-program our physical world is a new reality for everyone.

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

Our world is built on biology and once we begin to understand it, it then becomes a technology.

I decided that I wanted to become an engineer of the biological world, specifically a protein engineer.

We went from a world where almost nobody knew anything about computers to a world where almost all of us are computer geeks for a huge fraction of our day. And I'd like to see that happen with the digital world of biological molecules, too.

The technology of synthetic biology is currently accelerating at four times the rate of Moore's Law. It's been doing that since 2005, and it's likely to continue.

Biology is the most powerful technology ever created. DNA is software, protein are hardware, cells are factories.

I've always been interested in science - one of my favourite books is James Watson's 'Molecular Biology of the Gene.'

When something like personal genomics or synthetic biology suddenly appears - it seems to suddenly appear - we might have been working on it for 30 years, but it seems to come out of nowhere. Then you need strategies for engaging a lot of people and thinking about where it will be going in the next few months or few years.