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Which writers or artists most influenced your work?

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Frances Arnold Chemical engineer; Nobel laureate in Chemistry, 2018
I realized I took ideas from philosophers like Dan Dennett. I took ideas from evolutionary biologists like John Maynard Smith. I took ideas from people who were trying to implement evolution for things like RNA, so people like Jerry Joyce at Scripps. I took ideas from lots of people who could explain their ideas well, so I’ve been influenced by many. I’ve built my ideas on the contributions of many. And, of course, that’s what evolution does. It mutates and recombines what’s already there. Nothing comes out of nothing, right? It all comes on the back of what was there.
Recorded Academy of Achievement interview, Pasadena, California, 18 January 2019 source ↗

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