Tweeted by William Shatner during his flight last week into space:
I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, diverting myself in now & then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
-- Isaac Newton
I hope I never recover from this. I hope that I can maintain what I feel now. I don't want to lose it. ...It has to do with the enormity and the quickness and the suddenness of life and death. Oh my god, it’s unbelievable.
The moment you see the vulnerability of everything; it’s so small. This air, which is keeping us alive, is thinner than your skin.
Everybody in the world needs to do this. Everybody in the world needs to see.
-- William Shatner
I'm no space-geek, but I was impressed by the impact the different perspective about our existence had on Shatner. Knowing about something (like playing a role about it on TV), is not the same thing as experiencing it.
