It was essentially an aside, and yet a breathtaking attack on science and scientists.
Massive poverty and inequality are terrible scourges of our times - times in which the world also boasts breathtaking advances in science, technology, industry and wealth accumulation.
Two-thirds of the world's peoples are underprivileged, and this despite such breathtaking achievements of science as space travel, instant communication, and the unraveling of the very building blocks of life.
Although many babies, as Humes graphically informs us, aren't so lucky, the outlook for sick infants is considerably brighter than it was only five or ten years ago, thanks to breathtaking advances in neonatal science.
A must-read for anyone trying to understand ambitious new research programs such as the Obama administration's BRAIN Initiative and the European Union's Human Brain Project, The Future of the Brain sheds light on the breathtaking implications of brain science for medicine, psychiatry, and even human consciousness itself.
"That Saudi Arabia, a country with such obvious oil interests, exploited the UN consensus rule to stop the world's most vulnerable countries from getting a much-needed summary of the latest climate science is breathtaking for its criminal disregard for the human impacts of climate change".
The cynicism of the religious right's latest attack on science is absolutely breathtaking.
Shortly afterwards, the first pictures from the descent to Titan's surface were revealed to the science teams, showing breathtaking panoramas of river channels and a dried up lake bed.
The scope of "hard" science fiction is truly breathtaking: the entire universe and all of the past, present and future are the canvas on which we work.
While China has made breathtaking strides in industry and technology, its bathroom science has lagged behind.
