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- Nov 07, 2020
Clocks Quotes
On body clocks, calendars and how time really feels.
This clocks quotes page explains travel fatigue as internal clocks falling out of sync, and questions why Morning and evening activity patterns exist at all.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Ethos
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the end, we all want a wife. But the home has become increasingly invaded by the ethos of work, work, work, with twin sets of external clocks imposed on a household's natural rhythms.
- Our
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- Nov 07, 2020
The physical malaise we feel when we travel reflects a desynchronizing of all the clocks that reside in our tissues.
- Evening
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was always intriguing that flies had two peaks of activity, in the morning and evening, with a siesta during the day and not very much activity at night. There are several ways to explain that, but one possibility was that there were two clocks running - one governing the morning peak and one governing the evening peak.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
Calendars and clocks exist to measure time, but that signifies little because we all know that an hour can seem as eternity or pass in a flash, according to how we spend it.
- Goals
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the morning, I have certain aspirations. One of my goals is to avoid looking at the computer or checking e-mail for at least an hour after I wake up. I also try to avoid alarm clocks as much as possible, because it's just nice to wake up without one.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a species, taking all in all, we are still too young, too juvenile, to be trusted. We have spread across the face of the earth in just a few thousand years, no time at all as evolution clocks time, covering all livable parts of the planet, endangering other forms of life, and now threatening ourselves.
- Limits
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- Nov 07, 2020
Time limits are fictional. Losing all sense of time is actually the way to reality. We use clocks and calendars for convenience sake, not because that kind of time is real.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
I often set two alarm clocks because I'm afraid the first one won't actually make me get up.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Having designed and built several clocks during my career it suddenly occurred to me that when you look at the face of a clock both hands have the same center.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life evolved under conditions of light and darkness, light and then darkness. And so plants and animals developed their own internal clocks so that they would be ready for these changes in light. These are chemical clocks, and they're found in every known being that has two or more cells and in some that only have one cell.
- Mysterious
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- Nov 07, 2020
People used to think that biological clocks were not only mysterious, they were seen almost as miracles. This is no longer the case.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
For the modern physicist, reality is the whole thing, past and future joined in a single history. The sensation of now is just that, a sensation, and different for everyone. Instead of one master clock, we have clocks in multitudes.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I once made love for an hour and fifteen minutes, but it was the night the clocks are set ahead.
- Over
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- Nov 07, 2020