There is no more common error than to assume that, because prolonged and accurate mathematical calculations have been made, the application of the result to some fact of nature is absolutely certain.
Alfred North WhiteheadLife is complex in its expression, involving more than percipience, namely desire, emotion, will, and feeling.
Alfred North WhiteheadDisputing the commonsense notion that all events require the prior existence of some underlying matter or substance. There is no antecedent static cabinet.
Alfred North Whitehead