David Ebenbach > Quotes

“There is meaning in absence just as there is meaning in presence. In fact, there may be more meaning in absence. The only difference is that you have to figure out what it is.”
― David Ebenbach, How to Mars

“We have been told that this is what it means to be alive.”
― David Ebenbach, How to Mars

“What you have here is a women who's travelled more than a hundred millions miles in order to become, I guess, a biologist with no bio to ology”
― David Ebenbach, How to Mars

“What do you think it means?" she says in a low, conspiratorial voice.
"What do YOU think it means?" I say. It's an old psychologist move, that one.”
― David Ebenbach, How to Mars

“Holding hands in spacesuits is not very much like holding actual hands, but it's something.”
― David Ebenbach, How to Mars

“Sometimes there are things we don’t know, and sometimes there are things that we don’t know that we do know, or that we know but we don’t know that you want to know them.”
― David Ebenbach

“You could think about something without doing something.”
― David Ebenbach