Richard Axel Quotes

#1. People can choose between the sweet lie or the bitter truth. I say the bitter truth, but many people don't want to hear it.

Avigdor Lieberman

#2. That's the thing about living vicariously; it's so much faster than actual living.

Audrey Niffenegger

#3. Let your curiosity be greater than your fear.

Pema Chodron

#4. It's like, imagine the ripples on top of an ocean. And I'm in a rowboat, reactively dealing with the waves and water coming into my boat. What I need to do is dive into the deeper solace, the calmness beneath the surface.

Mehmet Oz

#5. All animals exhibit innate behaviors in response to specific sensory stimuli that are likely to result from the activation of developmentally programmed circuits.

Richard Axel

#6. When happiness settles upon you like a butterfly, sit very quiet and remember the colors

Diane Lee Wilson

#7. With each teardrop; pain hits the floor

Lisa C. Miller

#8. Listen. You know what it's like when you're in a room with the light on and then suddenly the light goes out? I'll show you. It's like this.
He turns out the light.
BLACKOUT

Harold Pinter

#9. The identification of a population of olfactory sensory neurons innervating a single glomerulus that mediates robust avoidance to a naturally occurring odorant provides insight in the neural circuitry that underlies this innate behavior.

Richard Axel

#10. The more detailed the plan, the easier the trip.

Henry Ford

#11. You reminded me what it feels like to love. You made me fall in love and, fuck, I don't want to lose that. I don't want to lose you.

Nyrae Dawn

#12. At the very beginning when I begin writing a poem I try not to think of the audience or anyone at all except for trying to get at the very center of what is driving that poem. In a way it's like analyzing myself.

Rita Dove

#13. 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.

Richard Axel

#14. There are many ways for organisms to probe the external world. Some smell it, others listen to it, many see it. Each species, therefore, lives in its own unique sensory world of which other species may be partially or totally unaware.

Richard Axel

#15. If I think, I am lost.

Paul Cezanne