One test of a true clock is its ability to keep time through a wide range of temperatures. A clock that speeds up in hot weather and slows down in cold weather is not a clock, although it may make a good thermometer.

— Jonathan Weiner Time, Love, Memory: A Great Biologist and His Quest for the Origins of Behavior (1999)

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