The Significance of Time

Sadrach Pierre, Ph.D.
4 min readNov 20, 2019

His fame lasts perhaps two thousand years. And what are two thousand years? What, indeed, if you look from a mountain top down the long wastes of the ages? The very stone one kicks with one’s boot will outlast Shakespeare.

-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

Recently I came across a painting by Jay DeFeo called The Rose.

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Sadrach Pierre, Ph.D.

Writer for Built In & Towards Data Science. Cornell University Ph. D. in Chemical Physics.