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.
Frances ArnoldRead
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?
Interpretation
What this quote means
This quote envisions a future where we harness nature's power to address global challenges rather than depleting it.
Frances Arnold's quote emphasizes the need for a symbiotic relationship with nature, urging humanity to innovate solutions to contemporary problems by utilizing natural resources responsibly. Rather than viewing the natural world as a mere resource to be exploited, she advocates for a perspective that sees nature as a partner in overcoming issues like climate change, resource scarcity, and environmental degradation.
Themes
NatureFutureProblemsEnvironmentInnovation
In practice
Example use cases
In a lecture about sustainable development, this quote can highlight the importance of collaboration with nature.
More from Frances Arnold
All quotes →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.
Frances ArnoldRead
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.
Frances ArnoldRead
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.
Frances ArnoldRead
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.
Frances ArnoldRead
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.
Frances ArnoldRead
Similar quotes
Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
John MuirRead
When you pollute a river, it's a supreme injustice to those who are downstream and those who live in the river who are not human beings.
Paul HawkenRead
It was an overcast late November morning, the grass splintered by hoarfrost, and winter grinning through the gaps in the clouds like a bad clown peering through the curtains before the show begins.
John ConnollyRead
A Christmas frost had come at midsummer; a white December storm had whirled over June; ice glazed the ripe apples, drifts crushed the blowing roses; on hayfield and cornfield lay a frozen shroud: lanes which last night blushed full of flowers, to-day were pathless with untrodden snow; and the woods, which twelve hours since waved leafy and flagrant as groves between the tropics, now spread, waste, wild, and white as pine-forests in wintry Norway.
Charlotte BronteRead
I hear the mad song of a little bird and crush butterflies between my fingers.
Clarice LispectorRead
The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.
QuintilianRead