Quotes by Frances Arnold - Page 2

I care about this beautiful planet that we all share. This is a home that we have to leave in good shape for the next generations.
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Generations
Good Shape
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Evolution is good for optimising and that is well understood. But evolution also creates things that no one knew were even possible.
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Evolution
Creates
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The fuel for evolution is diversity, with natural selection leading to continuous adaptations and improvements in Nature's handiwork.
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Adaptation
Diversity
Evolution
Fuel
Handiwork
Natural
Natural Selection
Selection
Continuous
Leading
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I took mechanical drawing, geometry and typing at high school, the latter because that is what they did with smart girls in those days!
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Drawing
Latter
Typing
Mechanical
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Isobutanol is not a natural product, but we evolved an enzyme that makes it possible to convert plant sugars to this precursor to jet fuel.
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Fuel
Jet
Plant
Precursor
Convert
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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.
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Science
Technology
Creativity
Science And Technology
Strong
Education Science Technology
Grow
Interested
Encourages
System
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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.
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Models
Role Models
Used
Woman
Wrong
Role
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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.
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Best
Anticipate
Environment
Flexible
Control
Adapt
Thought
Respond
Give
Sense
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I've been called pushy and aggressive and all the negative words that are rarely applied to men with the same traits. But it doesn't bother me.
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Aggressive
Bother
Pushy
Traits
Applied
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In the test tube, I can make any DNA I want, recombining it from monkeys, worms, anywhere. So I can explore new rules of breeding with molecules.
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Breeding
Dna
Molecules
Worms
Tube
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I get called lots of things - a biochemist, a molecular biologist, a chemical engineer - and I guess I am all of those. I identify most as human!
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Biologist
Chemical
Identify
Molecular
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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?
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Honest
Inquiry
Threatened
Forces
Wanting
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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.
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Admiration
Chemistry
Evolution
Finest
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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.
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Biology
Molecules
Array
Demonstrate
Realm
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Microbes such as bacteria and yeast use enzymes to make fuels from biomass. We use directed evolution to perfect those enzymes and make new fuels efficiently.
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Bacteria
Yeast
Directed
Efficiently
Fuels
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Silicon is all around but it's tied up in rocks... with these very strong silicon-oxygen bonds that living systems would have to break in order to use silicon.
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Rocks
Silicon
Tied
Bonds
Systems
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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.
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Connections
Imagine
Literature
Understanding
Helped
Inform
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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.
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Carter
Employed
Institute
Renewable Energy
Renewable
Solar
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Enzymes are masters of chemistry. They evolved over billions of years to perform specific biological functions. They make complex materials with virtually no waste.
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Billions
Chemistry
Masters
Waste
Evolved
Functions
Virtually
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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?
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Future
Destroying
Helping
Helping Hand
Natural
Natural World
Solve
Why
Facing
Gives
Hand
Instead
Problems
See
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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.
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Bacteria
Factories
Chemical
Figured
Fraction
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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.
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Me People Young
Followed
Recipe
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What I want to do is encourage women to take on this incredibly exciting and fun challenge to use their brains for the benefit of humanity but through science and technology.
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Science
Technology
Fun
Humanity
Science And Technology
Science Women Technology
Benefit
Brains
Challenge
Incredibly
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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.
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Believe In Yourself
Innovative
Obvious
Time Good Believe
Good Idea
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Doing science at the highest level is hard for anyone. It's hard for women, and it's hard for the men. And we need to have supportive mentors and role models we can look up to.
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Science
Models
Role Models
Supportive
Men Women Look
Science Women Men
Highest Level
Mentors
Role
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In academics, it's getting your voice out that's important. It's getting somebody to listen to you. I had no problem with that. People were always curious about what I had to say.
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No Problem
Always Your Important
Academics
Voice People Important
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Pittsburgh was a wonderful place to grow up - diverse and complex, one could go from one culture to a completely different one in just a few blocks. It was a whole world in one city.
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Diverse
Pittsburgh
Blocks
Wonderful Place
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We've been tinkering with nature for tens of thousands of years - look at a poodle! So we've created all sorts of organisms and biological things that wouldn't be here were it not for us.
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Organisms
Tinkering
Biological
Poodle
Tens
Tens Of Thousands
Thousands
Thousands Of Years
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The code of life is like a Beethoven symphony. We have not yet learned how to write music like that. But evolution does it very well. I am learning how to use evolution to compose new music.
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Code
Evolution
New Music
Symphony
Life Learning Music
Beethoven
Compose
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I thought to myself: What are the most important problems that society faces that I could contribute to? And it was clear that finding new sustainable sources of energy was the most important.
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Faces
Contribute
Sustainable
Sources
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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.
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Appropriate
Artificial
Chemical Reactions
Machinery
Reactions
Selection
Cell
Chemical
Incentive
Promote
Rapidly
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I was very head-strong, and this was the Vietnam War era - You did not listen to your parents or other authority figures. You didn't share their values. No one did in my circle. It was OK to rebel.
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Authority
Authority Figures
Figures
Rebel
Vietnam
Vietnam War
Circle
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Inside of a living cell there are thousands of proteins that enable it to make more of itself and make your malaria drug, for instance. We don't understand those. We don't understand how they work together.
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Instance
Malaria
Together
Inside
Living
Understand
Work Together Your
Cell
Itself
Enable
Work Living Your
Proteins
Thousands
Work Together
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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.
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Laboratory
New Ones
Tremendously
Uses
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We've been modifying the biological world at the level of DNA for thousands of years. Somehow there is this new fear of what we already have been doing and that fear has limited our ability to provide real solutions.
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Ability
Dna
Modifying
Real
Solutions
Years
Biological
Limited
Provide
Thousands
Thousands Of Years
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Nature is solving all sorts of problems that we throw at her - how to degrade plastic bottles, how to degrade pesticides and herbicides and antibiotics. She creates new enzymes in response to that all the time, in real time.
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Antibiotics
Bottles
Degrade
Pesticides
Plastic
Response
Creates
Real Time
Solving
Throw
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In the universe of possibilities that exist for life, we've shown that it is a very easy possibility for life as we know it to include silicon in organic molecules. And once you can do it somewhere in the universe, it's probably being done.
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Being Done
Molecules
Silicon
Universe
You Can Do It
Somewhere
Exist
Include
Organic
Possibilities
Shown
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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?
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Biology
Cancer
Imagine
Steps
Cure
Evolutionary
Instead
Intermediate
Pathway
Studying
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Enzymes catalyze all the reactions of life. They're what allow you to extract materials and energy from your environment and turn that into muscle and tissue and fat. That's all done by enzymes. They're pretty remarkable chemists - they're even better than Caltech chemists.
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Materials
Reactions
Remarkable
Muscle
Extract
Tissue
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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.
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Biology
Faces
Life Nature Power
Chemical
Engine
Innovate
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For me, I was always the only woman in my cohort, first as a mechanical engineering undergraduate student, then as a chemical engineering graduate student. There were very few women getting degrees in those fields at the time. My role models were men - great men role models.
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Degrees
Engineering
Models
Role Models
Undergraduate
Time Men Women
Chemical
Time Women Men
Few Women
Graduate
Graduate Student
Mechanical
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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.
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Change
Great
Careful
Constant
Listening
Offers
Thrive
Adapt
Another
Grow
Benefit
Those
Changing
Even
Means
Intellectually
Learn
Least
Lesson
Personally
Survive
Survivors
To Survive
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