Quote of the day, from NPR, Stephen Hawking's funeral service.

Hawking's family invited around 500 guests for the private service. His oldest son Robert eulogized him. His former student, the British physicist Fay Dowker, said she had come to think of him as immortal. The actor Eddie Redmayne, who won an Oscar for his portrayal of Hawking in the 2014 film The Theory of Everything, read Ecclesiastes 3.1-11. The choir of Gonville & Caius college sang "Beyond the Night Sky," a choral work composed as a gift to Hawking for his 75th birthday last year. Hawking was an atheist. "I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail," he once told The Guardian. "There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark." But because of his deep ties to Cambridge University, his family chose the customary Church of England service given to longtime fellows here.