Discern Quote by Rachel Hartman

“Sometimes a scent is more evocative than a photo or an image. It is a primer for the deflagration of sensation, emotions, desires, uncontrollable…

— Profumum Roma

“This system can indicate that this mouse is John Smith. How does it also tell that he’s your never-before-encountered brother? The closer the relative,…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

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

“The fragrance of white tea is the feeling of existing in the mists that float over waters; the scent of peony is the scent…

— C. JoyBell C

“Sound waves, regardless of their frequency or intensity, can only be detected by the Mole Fly’s acute sense of smell—it is a little known…

— Ashim Shanker

“Our hundreds of useless olfactory genes are left over from mammal ancestors who relied more heavily on the sense of smell to survive ...…

— Neil Shubin

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

— Mary Roach

“The spiraling flights of moths appear haphazard only because of the mechanisms of olfactory tracking are so different from our own. Using binocular vision,…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“I want to mass produce wretchedness. An unsatisfactory factory. Then I want to produce cologne and stench—at different ends of the production line. So…

— Jarod Kintz

“Humans are better equipped for sight than for smell. We process visual input ten times faster than olfactory. Visual and cognitive cues handily trump…

— Anonymous

“Scientists still know very little about how the olfactory cortex in the brain converts impulses from receptors into conscious senses of smell. But Harry…

— Jo Nesbø

We need to discern what it is that requires reflection in our lives and in what we read and how we read it.

— Maryanne Wolf