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 WhiteheadReligion is what the individual does with his own solitariness. Thus religion is solitariness; and if you are never solitary, you are never religious.
Alfred North WhiteheadI have always noticed that deeply and truly religious persons are fond of a joke, and I am suspicious of those who aren't.
Alfred North WhiteheadPhilosophy is the self-correction by consciousness of its own initial excess of subjectivity.
Alfred North Whitehead