Journal Entry: February 2, 1891

“When I look up at the stars at night I am so overwhelmed sometimes that I say to myself we can not only conceive of a being that could do that, but we cannot take the first step toward conceiving him. How puny and insignificant seems the God of the churches. Therefore I say he is the most devout man who says there is no god – the utmost stretch whose thought cannot make out one feature or attribute of a being who could put those stars up there. The universe is so stupendous that it crushes any Atlas upon whose shoulders we may place is. There is no God. There is a self-existing, self-perpetuating universe.”