Lucy Hawking Quotes & Sayings

I wanted to tell you about it because science is really important. Without it, we don't understand anything, so how can we get anything right or make any good decisions? Some people think science is boring, some people think it's dangerous - and if we don't get interested in science and learn about it and use it properly, then maybe it is those things. But if you try and understand it, it's fascinating, and it matters to us and to the future of our planet. — Lucy Hawking

As a child, I wanted to know how things worked and to control them. — Lucy Hawking

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

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

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

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

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

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

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