Anyone can say that, anyone can call himself a prophet. But I only see Christianity where I find prophecies, and this is something very few can do. This is where natural reason brings us. The entire visible world is only an imperceptible speck in the ample bosom of nature. No idea can come close to imagining it.
Nature is an infinite sphere in which the center is everywhere, the circumference is nowhere.
But to offer him another astonishing prodigy, let him behold the tiniest things he knows of. I wish now to make him see therein a new abyss. I want to paint for him not only the visible universe, but all the imaginable immensity of nature within the confines of an atom. He is nothing in comparison with the infinite, and everything in comparison with nothingness, a middle term between all and nothing. All things arise from nothingness and are carried to infinity.