Quote by Neil Shubin

“Fully 3 percent of our entire genome is devoted to genes for detecting different odors. Each of these genes makes a receptor for an…

— Neil Shubin

“Parts of it are surprisingly beautiful. On a vast stretch on chromosome eleven, for instance, there is a causeway dedicated entirely to the sensation…

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

“It is a truism among researchers into smell that all human subjects behave as if they themselves do not smell like humans, because all…

— Lyall Watson

Smell is a very animal thing, almost reptilian, where the more cerebral things like reading less so.

— Iain Banks

“Humans are better equipped for sight than for smell. We process visual input ten times faster than olfactory.”

— Mary Roach

We evolved in a tropical climate where the smells of plants and flowers were all around us. We spent a lot of time in…

— Helen Fisher

Smell was our first sense. It is even possible that being able to smell was the stimulus that took a primitive fish and turned…

— Lyall Watson

It is almost as hard for us to sense our own species quality as it is to sense our species smell.

— Lois Crisler

I think that animals aren't less intelligent than humans, they're just of a different intelligence. We have five million smell-sensitive cells in our nose,…

— Mike Mills

We are inescapably the result of a long heritage of learning, adaptation, mutation and evolution, the product of a history which predates our birth…

— Fred Hoyle

The body is merely an evolutionary vehicle for the gene

— Matt Ridley

Smell is the shortest synaptic leap in the brain to our memory, and I'm amazed that people don't sniff everything.

— Richard E. Grant