Top 6 Quotes & Sayings by David J. Anderson

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American scientist David J. Anderson.
Last updated on September 19, 2024.
David J. Anderson

David J. Anderson is an American neurobiologist. He is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator. His lab is located at the California Institute of Technology, where he currently holds the position of Seymour Benzer Professor of Biology, TianQiao and Chrissy Chen Leadership Chair and Director, TianQiao and Chrissy Chen Institute for Neuroscience. Anderson is a founding adviser of the Allen Institute for Brain Research, a non-profit research institute funded by the late Paul G. Allen, and spearheaded the Institute's early effort to generate a comprehensive map of gene expression in the mouse brain.

I like solving problems, and science provides a logical way of solving real-life problems.
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.
Successful ecologists are successful in part because they have prepared their minds to attack scientific problems using a variety of intellectual tools. — © David J. Anderson
Successful ecologists are successful in part because they have prepared their minds to attack scientific problems using a variety of intellectual tools.
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.
Elementary school children are very impressionable
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.
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