David J. Anderson
David J. Anderson
David J. Andersonis an American neurobiologist. He is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator. His lab is located at the California Institute of Technology, where he current holds the position of Seymour Benzer Professor in Biology...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
CountryUnited States of America
David J. Anderson quotes about
not-good-enough improvement catalyst
An act of leadership is to say that whatever's happening now is not good enough and suggest or show that we can do better. If you don't have that, then you don't have the catalyst for continuous improvement.
two interesting people
There are two things I enjoy most about my work. First, I get to work with interesting and enthusiastic people who are also fired up about science. Second, every once in a while I have moments in which I suddenly understand the solution to a problem that I've been working on - those are great moments.
successful mind intellectual
Successful ecologists are successful in part because they have prepared their minds to attack scientific problems using a variety of intellectual tools.
real way problem
I like solving problems, and science provides a logical way of solving real-life problems.
children school elementary-school
Elementary school children are very impressionable
islands bird luck
Becoming a bird ecologist was just luck! I had the chance to be a field assistant for a scientist working in the Galapagos Islands, and while I was there, I saw a particular problem in behavioral biology that I wanted to solve and, in the process, made myself into a bird ecologist.