Olfactory Receptors Quotes

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

The sense of smell in all dogs is their primary doorway to the world around them.

I'm very sensitive to smells.

Smells definitely do have a crazy impact on me.

Appetite, craving for food, is a constant and powerful stimulator of the gastric glands.

Before sight and sound hijacked our attention, we shared with all life a sort of common sense, a chemical sense that depended on direct contact with matter in the water or the air.

The sense of smell explores; deleterious substances almost always have an unpleasant smell.

Women have a better sense of smell than men do, and it's even sharper in the middle of their menstrual cycle, when estrogen levels peak and women are more likely to be deciding whether a man's attractive.

One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.

If the first bite is with the eye and the second with the nose, some people will never take that third, actual bite if the food in question smells too fishy, fermented or cheesy.

Enantiomers often smell and taste differently.

Why does the lizard stick his tongue out? The lizard sticks its tongue out because that's the way its listening and looking and tasting its environment. It's its means of appreciating what's in front of it.

We know what molecules are needed to sense light - what turns that signal that detects light into an electrical signal. We know how smells are detected. But we have a vast number of senses for which we know what the signal is, but we don't know what the receiver is.

I'm just a huge fan of smells, first of all. I have a bit of an obsession with smells.

The sense of smell, like a faithful counsellor, foretells its character.

In humans, smell is often viewed as an aesthetic sense, as a sense capable of eliciting enduring thoughts and memories. Smell, however, is the primal sense. It is the sense that affords most organisms the ability to detect food, predators, and mates.