David J. Anderson Quotes

United States, Neuroscientist
1956

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 in Biology.

I like solving problems, and science provides a logical way of solving real-life problems.

David J. Anderson
- Life
- Real
- Science
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.

David J. Anderson
- People
- Up
- Work

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
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.

David J. Anderson
- Luck
- Bird