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Only by ignorance is science threatened.
So many things in my life have gone awry.
You never know what will happen tomorrow.
Proteins aren't designed, they're evolved.
I am a student of evolution and adaptation.
There's plenty of ordinary Nobel laureates.
I'm not a gentleman and I'm not a scientist.
I tried lots of things and never stopped learning.
Evolution, to me, is the best designer of all time.
The biological world always seems poised to innovate.
Bemoaning your fate is not going to solve the problem.
I think of what I do as copying nature's design process.
Only engineers would do something like random mutagenesis.
I was the first female cab driver in the city of Pittsburgh.
I feel a responsibility to encourage everyone to excel in science.
There's nothing like evolution for engineering beautiful organisms.
When I started engineering proteins I didn't know how hard it would be.
I learned how to navigate the world, and life's potholes, in Pittsburgh.
Life is not a piece of cake, and it certainly is not for many of the people I know.
I had to grow up, reach a certain age where I see people do have something to show me.
In the lab, we're discovering that nature can do chemistry we never dreamed was possible.
I studied mechanical engineering at Princeton and worked on solar energy after graduation.
I realized that the way most people were going about protein engineering was doomed failure.
All my projects are about sustainability, bioremediation, making things in a cleaner fashion.
Science and technology are going to be the basis for many of the solutions to social problems.
This innovation machine that's evolution, we can use it to do all sorts of interesting things.
Engineering the biological world was even more interesting than engineering the mechanical world.
I don't sit around feeling sorry for myself. There's always somebody who's a lot worse off than you.
I wanted to rewrite the code of life, to make new molecular machines that would solve human problems.
I decided that I wanted to become an engineer of the biological world, specifically a protein engineer.
I wanted to make enzymes that would solve human problems, not just problems for a cell that makes them.
There are lot of brilliant women in chemistry, a little later than some of the men, but they are amazing.
People are really interested in these fundamental questions: Why is life based on carbon and not silicon?
We are going to see a steady stream, I predict, of Nobel prizes coming out of chemistry and given to women.
Silicon-based life on Earth doesn't make sense, but perhaps it would in some totally different environment.
Cellulose has physical and chemical properties that make it difficult to access and difficult to break down.
The real frontier is making these hybrid systems where you expand the capabilities of biology with chemistry.
I wanted to develop a career where I could use my engineering background to have a positive effect on society.
No human can design a good enzyme, yet we are surrounded by them after 3.5 billion years of work by evolution.
My feeling is that we can genetically encode almost any kind of chemistry. We just have to learn how to do that.
My feeling is that if a human being can coax life to build bonds between silicon and carbon, nature can do it too.
Mother Nature has been the best bioengineer in history. Why not harness the evolutionary process to design proteins?
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.
We're seeing a move toward making things that either chemistry cannot make or can't make efficiently but biology does.
I'm interested in using evolution to move forward into the future, to get biology to do a lot of new chemistry for us.
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.
I did all sorts of things that you wouldn't normally find on an engineer's docket, but it made an educated person out of me.
Human beings have been manipulating the biological world for thousands of years without understanding how DNA codes function.
Using the power of protein engineering and evolution, we can convince enzymes to take what they do poorly and do it really well.
I get these students who come in and say, I want to help people. I say, people get plenty of help. Why don't you help the planet?