I got this from a Facebook friend. Perhaps Stephen Hawking wasn't such an atheist after all.
"Oh, Stephen Hawking has passed on.
Ashamedly, I didn't know who he was until the film came out. And then I read his books and was completely astonished. Towards the end of A Brief History of Time he says something along the lines of, "to understand the reason for the existence of the universe would be to understand the mind of God".
A lot of the science escaped me, but it is one of the most spiritual books I have ever read, and he was, himself, a living miracle."
She also posted this: :
"I can't help but notice the coincidence of Stephen Hawking sharing a birth date with Galileo, and passing on on the date that mathematics is celebrated via the traditional Pi day, moreover that Pi is a universal constant and goes on infinitely... How's that for a singularity?"