"Science and technology are going to be the basis for many of the solutions to social problems." — Frances Arnold

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.

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.

I studied mechanical engineering at Princeton and worked on solar energy after graduation.

I think of what I do as copying nature's design process.