Nose Dive Quotes

“George Orwell famously observed in The Road to Wigan Pier that leftist intellectuals seldom had anything to do with the lower classes that they championed, for a simple reason, his emphasis: “The lower classes smell.”
― Harold McGee, Nose Dive: A Field Guide to the World's Smells

“they have repeatedly overcome or worked around the forces of the actual—inertia, stasis, entropy—to probe the realm of the possible.”
― Harold McGee, Nose Dive: A Field Guide to the World's Smells

“Carbon atoms are found in most of the millions of naturally occurring molecules that scientists have cataloged. Chief among these are the molecules of life. The physical structures and chemical machinery of all living things on our planet are made of molecules that are largely carbon. Fossil fuels come from living microbes and plants that were buried hundreds of millions of years ago, so coal and petroleum and natural gas, most plastics, and many other industrial chemicals, including solvents and lubricants, are mainly carbon. It’s also thanks to carbon that there are so many smells in the air for us to enjoy.”
― Harold McGee, Nose Dive: A Field Guide to the World's Smells

“All of these particular effects are consistent with frequent findings that diets high in meat and therefore protein are associated with an increased risk of colon cancer.”
― Harold McGee, Nose Dive: A Field Guide to the World's Smells