“What we need is a strong education system that allows creativity to gr...” — Frances Arnold Quote

What we need is a strong education system that allows creativity to grow and encourages students to be interested in science and technology.

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

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.

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!

I've always been comfortable thinking things through and doing it, more or less, my way. You can be as creative as you want, but if you're... unwilling to work on the details, to see those put into action, then creativity is just dreams, or worse, hallucinations.

My favorite thing is a brand-new project from scratch because you really never know how they're going to come to life. Going back for the third and fourth time to old ones is very gratifying, but it's not my favorite use of my creativity.

Inspiring children through play and creativity is crucial to early development, and no company has done more in that space over many generations than Mattel.

Creativity may be hard to nurture, but it's easy to thwart.