Except Einstein did have an epiphany on his death bed, about life and god.
The "childish" quote you are thinking of is probably, "I have repeatedly said that in my opinion the idea of a personal God is a childlike one. You may call me an agnostic, but I do not share the crusading spirit of the professional atheist whose fervor is mostly due to a painful act of liberation from the fetters of religious indoctrination received in youth.
Nothing in this post references anything childish?
you just keep telling yourself that ,
Among his contemporaries, his fellow physics, Hawking is not considered to be in the top ten. I would say shallow depth is a term they would use.
other than the vague things you state, what will hawking greatest contribution be and where do you think that will stand against the greatest minds. I doubt anything original from hawkin will rank in the top 50 achievements in science, maybe not even in the top 100.
that is not to say he is not a brilliant cripple, just not at the top of his field.