Frances Arnold Quotes

Evolution, to me, is the best designer of all time.

Life is a process of evolution.

Evolution isn't just a take-it-or-leave-it story about where we came from. It's an epic at the centre of life itself. It tells us we are part of nature in every respect.

Biology is the science. Evolution is the concept that makes biology unique.

God created a number of possibilities in case some of his prototypes failed - that is the meaning of evolution.

What humans can't engineer, evolution can.

I'm here as a product of process of evolution, which doesn't make very many exceptions. And which rates life relatively cheaply.

Evolution is the fundamental idea in all of life science - in all of biology.

Biology is the study of complicated things that have the appearance of having been designed with a purpose.

Spencer's god was Evolution, sometimes also called Progress.

Natural selection eliminates and maybe maintains, but it doesn't create.

Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.

We are the product of 4.5 billion years of fortuitous, slow biological evolution. There is no reason to think that the evolutionary process has stopped. Man is a transitional animal. He is not the climax of creation.

Biologists must constantly keep in mind that what they see was not designed, but rather evolved.

The tree of life was always there. Evolution just fills in the gaps.

The biological world always seems poised to innovate.

In the end, a lifeform is always a hybrid, a being endowed with some X-power such as being able to breathe for a few seconds out of water. That's how evolution works. Spectrally. We are all mermaids.

Evolution doesn't just look for things that are fun; if it did, we'd know how to fly.

Your creatures can come into being only, like shoot from stem, as part of an endlessly renewed process of evolution.

I have always had this basic biological question in terms of evolution, if the drive to evolution is to like survive. An organism that survives well, there is really no need for consciousness in there.

Natural selection is not an inflammatory phrase; evolution is.

First, Darwinian theory tells us how a certain amount of diversity in life forms can develop once we have various types of complex living organisms already in existence.

If you take a more Darwinian point of view the dynamics of the universe are such that as the universe evolved in time, complex systems arose out of the natural dynamics of the universe.

Evolution is one of the two or three most primally fascinating subjects in all the sciences.

If you really want to study evolution, you've got go outside sometime, because you'll see symbiosis everywhere!