Top 16 Quotes by Lyall Watson

About Lyall Watson

These are some quotes by South African author Lyall Watson Scientist, who lived between April 12, 1939 and June 25, 2008.

If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't.

If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't.

Lyall Watson

I live and work alone and travel light, relying largely on my memory and making a point of letting intuition guide my way.

I live and work alone and travel light, relying largely on my memory and making a point of letting intuition guide my way.

Lyall Watson

Smell is a long-distance sense, a way of stretching time and finding out in advance what lies ahead.

Smell is a long-distance sense, a way of stretching time and finding out in advance what lies ahead.

Lyall Watson

If elephants didn't exist, you couldn't invent one. They belong to a small group of living things so unlikely they challenge credulity and common sense.

If elephants didn't exist, you couldn't invent one. They belong to a small group of living things so unlikely they challenge credulity and common sense.

Lyall Watson

Smell is stimulating. It stirs things up and makes us nostalgic - a wonderful word which literally means 'ache for home' - which serves to inspire new circuits in the brain.

Smell is stimulating. It stirs things up and makes us nostalgic - a wonderful word which literally means 'ache for home' - which serves to inspire new circuits in the brain.

Lyall Watson

Air is traditionally 'thin,' but the more we learn about our atmosphere, the more substantial it becomes. In some places it is so filled with inorganic flotsam that it is almost thick enough to plough; in others, it has become so primed with the by-products of life that it comes close to being a living tissue in its own right.

Lyall Watson

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