“The hours are good but the minutes are lousy”
“The days go slowly but the years go quickly”
Any other such folk wisdom or quotes reflecting time-scale separation effects in time perception?
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“When you sit with a nice girl for two hours you think it’s only a minute, but when you sit on a hot stove for a minute you think it’s two hours. That’s relativity.” - unconfirmed but likely Einstein quote
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This is confirmed. It’s from an actual paper he wrote in the 30s I believe
found a fun new site: quoteinvestigator.com/2014/11/24/hot
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Yeah I love that site. I think I saw the paper tracked down (in a German language journal) more recently. But I’ve lost the trail
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