“Engineering the biological world was even more interesting than engine...” — Frances Arnold Quote

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

“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.”

“Mother Nature has been the best bioengineer in history. Why not harness the evolutionary process to design proteins?”

“International peace and security depend on certain taboos that are easily recognized when they are broken. It can be more important for an intervention to take place because nuclear or chemical or biological weapons are used as opposed to just measuring how many people are killed.”

“I never went through a biological clock experience. I never even heard it ticking.”

“In and after 1964 when I began to concern myself with the biological issues, and particularly from 1967 onwards, the extent of the problems over which I felt uneasy increased to such a point that in 1968 I felt a compelling urge to make my views public.”