In Lucien Price's The Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead, Whitehead tells how his personal and intellectual world came apart when the system of Newtonian physics proved inadequate to new research and experimentation. It was a time of great anguish and crisis for Whitehead. Anytime our world-view crumbles, it is a shattering experience. But we know that out of Whitehead's shambles came a new philosophic vision of the universe that has proved more satisfying and useful than the one that crumbled. Life's personal sufferings, hurts, defeats, and mistakes all have the possibility of being shaped into new perspectives and new visions. This is part of what the resurrection means.