Lucy Hawking Quotes

United Kingdom, Journalist
November 2, 1970

Catherine Lucy Hawking (born 2 November 1970) is an English journalist, novelist, educator, and philanthropist. She is the daughter of the theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking and writer Jane Wilde Hawking. She lives in London, and is best known as a children's novelist and science educator.

Also known as Novelist, Educator, Philanthropist

I wanted to be a ballerina as a child - I had a tutu, and I used to stage my own ballets in our front room with my family as the audience.

Lucy Hawking
- Family
I never thought I would become amazing. I never thought I would be as great as my father. I would like to continue writing novels, and hopefully, at some point, I would like to make the switch from being 'Stephen Hawking's daughter' to 'novelist Lucy Hawking,' and that will be a fabulous day.

Lucy Hawking
- Great
- Writing
- Father

I was never top of the class at school, but my classmates must have seen potential in me, because my nickname was Einstein.

Lucy Hawking
- School
I'm not saying it never occurred to me to want to write a masterpiece, but I really doubt I could.

Lucy Hawking
- Doubt
I am a world expert on how to organise tasks in a senseless order, totally unrelated to priority, and thus create a massive panic leading up to an important deadline.

Lucy Hawking
- Up
- World
- Important
As a child, I wanted to know how things worked and to control them.

Lucy Hawking
- Control
I think the human race doesn't have a future if we don't go into space. We need to expand our horizons beyond planet Earth if we are to have a long-term future.

Lucy Hawking
- Long
- Future
- Earth
I wonder whether being a scientist's daughter makes you so conflicted about free will and fate.

Lucy Hawking
- Free
- Wonder
- Daughter