David J. Anderson Quotes

Successful ecologists are successful in part because they have prepared their minds to attack scientific problems using a variety of intellectual tools.

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.

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